What is Karl Marx?
{{Infobox philosopher | region = Western Philosophy | era = [[19th-century philosophy]] | color = red | image = Karl Marx_001.jpg | caption = Karl Marx in 1875 | name = Karl Heinrich Marx | birth_date = {{birth date|1818|5|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Trier]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] | death = {{death date and age|df=yes|1883|03|14|1818|05|05}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1883|3|14|1818|5|5|df=yes}} | death_place = [[London]], [[England]], <br> {{Nowrap|[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]}} | school_tradition = [[Marxism]] | main_interests = [[Politics]], [[Economics]], [[class struggle]], [[Alienation]] | influences = [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], [[Epicurus]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]], [[Ludwig Feuerbach|Feuerbach]], [[Max Stirner|Stirner]], [[Adam Smith|Smith]], [[David Ricardo|Ricardo]], [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]], [[Charles Fourier|Fourier]], [[Auguste Comte|Comte]] | influenced = [[Bakunin]], [[Rosa Luxemburg|Luxemburg]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], [[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]], [[Mao Zedong|Mao]], [[Fidel Castro|Castro]], [[Che Guevara|Guevara]], [[György Lukács|Lukács]], [[Antonio Gramsci|Gramsci]], [[Hannah Arendt|Arendt]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre|Sartre]], [[Guy Debord|Debord]], [[Frankfurt School]], [[Antonio Negri|Negri]], [[Michael Taussig|Taussig]], [[Kim Il-sung|Kim]], [[Manabendra Nath Roy|Roy]], [[Bookchin]] and <small>[[List of Marxists|many more...]]</small> | notable_ideas = Co-founder of [[Marxism]] (with [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]]), [[Alienation]] and [[exploitation]] of the worker, ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'', ''[[Das Kapital]]'', [[Historical materialism|Materialist conception of history]] |signature=Karl Marx Signature.svg|spouse={{marriage|Jenny von Westphalen|1843|1881}}}} '''Karl Heinrich Marx''' (5 May 1818 in [[Trier]], [[Prussia]] – 14 March 1883 in [[London]], [[England]]) was a [[Germany|German]] political thinker who wrote about [[economics]] and [[politics]]. Marx thought that