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May 5, 1818 — Mar 14, 1883· 64 yrs

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Karl Marx

Also known as: Karl Heinrich Marx, Carlos Marx

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Karl-Marx-Allee (Karl Marx Avenue) is a prominent boulevard in the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain and Mitte, constructed and expanded by the former East Germany between 1949 and 1960 as a showcase of socialist urbanism and architectural grandeur. Originally named Stalinallee from 1949 to 1961, the boulevard formed the centrepiece of the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) postwar reconstruction efforts. It was conceived as a model of dignified workers' housing and civic life, designed by leading architects including Hermann Henselmann, Egon Hartmann, Hans Hopp, Kurt W. Leucht, Richard Paulick and Josef Souradny. The ensemble featured spacious residences, cultural institutions such as the Kino International, as well as restaurants, cafés, and a tourist hotel. These developments were emblematic of East Germany's ideological ambition to "elevate the proletariat" through state-led urban planning.

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The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities," its unit being a single commodity. . . .

— from Das Kapital

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Das Kapital

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Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth and for nearly a century kept the world on the brink of war.

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Misère de la philosophie

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The Poverty of Philosophy (French: Misère de la philosophie) is a book by Karl Marx published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, where he lived in exile from 1843 until 1849. It was originally written in French as a critique of the economic and philosophical arguments of French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon set forth in his 1846 book The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty. (Source: [Wikipedia](

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Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: One of the most influential political tracts ever published this short book succinctly explains the aims and purpose of the Communist League of the 19th century, giving the author’s theories of the class struggle which they assumed would inevitably lead to world wide communism. Full text available at Project Gutenberg too

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