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The Marks Left by Marx: A Brief History
Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 , in the city of Trier in Rheinish Prussia. His family was Jewish, but converted to Protestanism in 1824. After graduating from High School in Trier, Marx entered university, first at Bonn and later in Berlin, where he studied law, majoring in history and philosophy. He graduated in 1841, submitting a doctoral thesis on the philosophy of Epicurus. At the time Marx was a Hegelian idealist in his views. In Berlin, he belonged to the circle of "Left Hegelians", who sought to draw atheistic and revolutionary conclusions from Hegel's philosophy.
In the beginning of 1842, some radical bourgeois in Rhineland, Cologne, who were in touch with the Left Hegelians, founded a paper in opposition to the Prussian government, called the Rheinische Zeitung. Marx and Bruno Bauer were invited to be the chief contributors, and in October 1842 Marx became editor-in-chief and moved from Bonn to Cologne. The newspaper's......

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