Karl Marx

Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Rheinish Prussia. His family was Jewish, but converted to Protestantism in 1824. The family was petty bourgeois: his father was a lawyer. After graduating from a Gymnasium (High School) in Trier, Marx entered the university, first at Bonn and later in Berlin, where he read law, majoring in history and philosophy. He concluded his university course in 1841, submitting a doctoral thesis on the philosophy …

…Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine and very much an American one. Karl Marx makes the facts of social life comprehensible. It places seemingly meanigless events in a general framework that enables us to determine cause an effect, to explain and to predict. Sociological theories vary greatly in their scope and sophistication. Some are sweeping explanations of major issues such as social change but most theories attempt to explain only a small aspect of reality