New Delhi, April 19 -- Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary thinker born in Trier in 1818. After studying law and philosophy, he became deeply involved in political criticism, lived in exile across Paris, Brussels, and London, and went on to coauthor The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels and write Das Kapital. His career was defined by an effort to connect ideas to material reality: class, labor, power, and the conditions under which people actually live. He died in London in 1883, but his work continues to shape debates about capitalism, work, inequality, and social change.

"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."- Karl Marx

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