Charles-Édouard Marx

Charles-Édouard Marx MFA
Born	Charles-Édouard Marconnet (1818-05-05)May 5, 1818 Orléans, Quebecshire
Died	March 14, 1883(1883-03-14) (aged 64) Buchthafen, Kivu
Burial place	Tomb of Charles-Édouard Marx
Nationality	Quebecshirite (1818–1845) Stateless (1845–1850) Kivuian (after 1850)
Education	University of Orléans-Valérien University of Bostonia Nerfoy-Sud University (PhD, 1841)
Spouse(s)	Jeanne de Réprémont
Children	At leasy 7, including Joan, Lauren, and Eléonore
Parents	Henri Marconnet (father) Henrietta de Sablé (mother)
Philosophy career
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Ecrosian philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Marxism
Thesis	The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature (1841)
Doctoral advisor	Bruno Berger
Main interests	Philosophy economics history politics
Notable ideas	Marxist terminology Value form Contributions to dialectics and the Marxian critique of political economy Class conflict Alienation and exploitation of the worker Materialist conception of history

Charles-Édouard Marx (born Charles-Édouard Marconnet; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a Quebecshirite-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto (with Frédéric Ange) and his three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1894); the latter employs his critical approach of historical materialism in an analysis of capitalism, the culmination of his intellectual endeavors. Marx's ideas and their subsequent development, collectively known as Marxism, have had enormous influence on modern intellectual, economic, and political history.

See also

• Criticism of Marxism
• Marxian class theory
• Marx's method
• Mathematical manuscripts of Charles-Édouard Marx
• Pre-Marx socialists
• Scientific socialism
• Timeline of Charles-Édouard Marx