Karl Marx, A Summary of his Life

Karl Marx Karl Marx was born into a progressive Jewish family in Prussian Trier (now in Germany). His father Herschel, descending from a long line of rabbis, was a lawyer and his brother Samuel was--like many of his ancestors--chief rabbi of Trier. The family name was originally "Marx Levi", which derives from the old Jewish surname Mardochai. In 1817 Heinrich Marx converted to the Prussian state religion of Lutheranism to keep his position as a lawyer, …

…and social conditions (and is therefore changing and can not be understood in terms of some universal "human nature"). More specifically, they argue his analysis of commodities is still useful and that alienation is still a problem. Miscellaneous The message carved on Marx's tombstone, in Highgate Cemetery, London - a monument built in 1954 by the British Communist Party - is: "Workers of all lands, unite". Before 1954 Marx's tomb was hard to find and humbly adorned.