Karl Marx

• Marx was German thinker and writer.
• He wrote the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels in 1848 and Das Kapital in 1867.
• He believed that workers would overthrow the capitalists in industrial countries and create a socialist state.
• Despite living in a predominantly agricultural society, radical thinkers in Russia read a lot that appealed to them in Marx’s works.
• Mikhail Bakunin published a Russian translation of the Communist Manifesto in 1869.