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Submitted by dham09 on September 12, 2006

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The Marks Left by Marx: A Brief History
Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 , in the city of Trier in Rheinish Prussia. His family was Jewish, but converted to Protestanism in 1824. After graduating from High School in Trier, Marx entered university, first at Bonn and later in Berlin, where he studied law, majoring in history and philosophy. He graduated in 1841, submitting a doctoral thesis on the philosophy of Epicurus. At the time Marx was a Hegelian idealist in his views. In Berlin, he belonged to the circle of "Left Hegelians", who sought to draw atheistic and revolutionary conclusions from Hegel's philosophy.
In the beginning of 1842, some radical bourgeois in Rhineland, Cologne, who were in touch with the Left Hegelians, founded a paper in opposition to the Prussian government, called the Rheinische Zeitung. Marx and Bruno Bauer were invited to be the chief contributors, and in October 1842 Marx became editor-in-chief and moved from Bonn to Cologne. The newspaper's revolutionary, democratic trend became more and more pronounced under Marx's editorship, and the government first imposed double and triple censorship on the paper, then, on January 1, 1843, suppressed it. Marx was forced to resign the editorship before that date, but his resignation did not save the paper, which suspended publication in March of 1843.
In 1843, Marx married, at Kreuznach, a childhood friend he had become engaged to while he was still a student. His wife came from a bourgeois family of the Prussian nobility, her elder brother being Prussia's Minister of the Interior during 1850 to 1858, an extremely reactionary period
During Autumn of 1843, Marx went to Paris in order to publish a radical journal abroad, together with Arnold Ruge. Only one issue of this journal, Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, appeared. Publication was discontinued due to the difficulty of secretly distributing it in Germany, and to a disagreement with Ruge. Marx's articles in...

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