" The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes and even cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity-and so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally." Karl Marx said this. He was a philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionary in the nineteenth century. .
Karl was born in a middle class home in Trier, Germany on May 5, 1818. His family came from a long line of Rabbis. At seventeen years old Karl enrolled in the faculty of law at the University of Bonn. While he was there he became engaged to Jenny Von Westphoten. Then soon after he went to Bonn University his father sent him to the University of Berlin.
After going to Berlin University, Marx went on to journalism. In October of 1842 he because the editor of Rheinsone Zeitung. This was a newspaper. He wrote articles on economic questions, but then the Prussian Government forced the newspaper to close. Karl then moved to France. While in France he went to Paris and become a communist. He then wrote a series of writings called Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts in 1844. This remained unpublished until the 1930's. In the series of writings Marx talks about his view on communism and a communist society. Also while in Paris that is where Marx made a lifelong partnership with Fredrich Engels. Engels was Marx's major source of income when the Marx family was living in poverty. All together Marx and his wife had six children but only three survived.
Marx and Engels were expelled from Paris and so they went to Brussels where they stayed for three years. While he was in Brussels Marx spent most of his time studying history.