The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on t… - Karl Marx

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The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.

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Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German political philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for labor theory of value, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought. He published many works during his lifetime, including The Communist Manifesto (1848) and the first volume of Das Kapital (1867), the two later volumes being completed by his collaborator Friedrich Engels.

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Alternative Names: Karl Heinrich Marx • Karl H. Marx • Marx

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