Karl Marx Karl Marx was a German philosopher and ideologist. He created the foundations of the communist doctrine, which criticized capitalism. His philosophical ideologies exerted influence in several areas of studying such as sociology, politics, philosophy, economics and other areas of academics. Because of his revolutionary conceptions, Karl Mark was one of the most debated and argued men of the twentieth century. Marx wrote several books and his ideas unfolded in various streams of thoughts. Karl Marx’s ideology and school of thought were highly influenced by his background, theories, and achievements, which served as major contributions to the study of economics. In May 5, 1818, Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier, Germany and died in London on March 14, 1883, as a result of bronchitis and respiratory problems. According to Gale Biography in Context, “Marx came from a Jewish family with rabbinical roots on both his paternal and maternal sides”. Marx in 1835 graduated from high school at the Lycée Friedrich Wilhelm. During the same year of 1835, the philosopher joined Bonn University where he enrolled to study law. Marx never paid much attention in his law studies, instead the majority of his energy was focused on the subjects of philosophy much attention in the subject. Making his father mad for not putting effort in Law in 1836 as Encyclopedia of the World Biography attests in one of their articles that, “Marx's dismayed father took him out of Bonn and had him enter the University of Berlin”. While studying at the University of Berlin, Marx was influenced by the thoughts of Hegel, participating in the Young Hegelian movement. In 1848, Marx and Engels, who he met in Paris after, exiled from Germany, publishes The Communist Manifesto, a first draft of revolutionary theory that would later be called Marxism. Throughout his life Karl Marx was exiled several times from several countries because of his extreme ideologies, an example of that is when “In 1842