Marx's Life and Works
Karl Marx was born in Trier, in the German Rhineland, in 1818. his family was Jewish they converted to Christianity so that his father could pursue his career as a lawyer in the face of Prussia's anti-Jewish laws. A precocious schoolchild, Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin, and then wrote a PhD thesis in Philosophy comparing the views of Democritus and Epicurus. On completion of his doctorate in hoped for an academic job, but he had already fallen in with too radical a group of thinkers and there was no real prospect. Turning to journalism, Marx rapidly became involved in political and social issues, and soon found himself having to consider communist theory. Of his many early writings, four, in particular, stand out Contribution to a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Introducion and On