Full Name: Karl Heinrich Marx
Born: 1818
Died: 1883
Hometown: Trier, Germany
Fave Subjects: Power, Right and Wrong, History, Money, Work
Career Highlights:
- wrote more than 20 books of philosophy as well as novels, but was also a newspaper journalist
- created a whole new system of economics and politics
- helped to establish social science as an area of study
Big Question:
What happens when some people are very rich and other people are very poor?
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