Karl Marx Profile

1. Karl Marx

2. He was born on 5 May
1818 in Trier

4. In 1835 he went to Bonn
University to study law
and the year after he
moved to Berlin

5. His original intention was to
go on with his legal studies,
but was drawn first into the
philosophy of law, and then
into philosophy

6. He was strongly influenced
by Hegel’s ideas
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7. In 1841 received his doctorate for
a thesis entitled ‘Difference Between
the Democritean and Epicurean
Philosophy of Nature’
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8. He worked in a newspaper called “The
Rheinische Zeitung” a year later he
moved to Cologne and became its chief
editor. In 1843 he and his family moved to
Paris after censorship made his work
almost impossible in Germany
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9. In 1845 Marx gets expelled
from France and moves to
Brussels, where he was soon
joined by Engels
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10. In 1849, the Marx family moved to
London and Marx obtained a ticket to
the Reading Room of the British
Museum. He started for the first time to
study economics, drawing especially on
the Economist
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11. Marx had originally intended the Contribution to
be only the introduction to the ‘Economics’, which
would be separated into six volumes:
(1) Capital
(2) Landed Property
(3) Wage Labor
(4) The State
(5) International Trade
(6) The World Market
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12. Marx abandoned the six-volume scheme, and
decided instead to call the whole work Capital,
which would be divided into four volumes
(1)production
(2)circulation
(3)the system as a whole
(4)theories of surplus value
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14. The first attempt to translate
“Capital” was made back in 1927
by P. Pouliopoulos and G.
Doumas
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15. Pouliopoulos was arrested by the
fascist Metaxa’s regime, and then
executed in 1943 by Italian forces
during the occupation of Greece in
the WW2 before he could finish his
translation.
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16. The attempts that were made later
by Giannis Kordatos and D.
Pournaras were also never
completed
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17. The first complete publication of
“Das Kapital” was made by the
lawyer Giannis Skouriotis in the 50’s.
Skouriotis translated the text
straight from the German prototype
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18. Skouriotis’s translation was
published in several issues at his
own expenses between 1954 and
1960
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19. The complete translation that can be found
in the market today was made by Panagiotis
Mavromatis, a delegate of CPG. The first two
volumes were published abroad, because
the CPG was outlawed until the mid-70
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20. The complete edition was made after the
collapse of the military junta in 1974 . In the
following decade the Capital was printed in
four volumes (including “surplus value
theories”)
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21. From 1978 until 2009 the first
volume sold over 23.000 copies, the
second 15.000, the third 12.000 and
the forth 8.000
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22. From 1978 until 2009 the first
volume sold over 23.000 copies, the
second 15.000, the third 12.000 and
the forth 8.000
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