Karl Marx

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

Name:

Date:

Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/karl-marx

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Karl Marx born?May 5, 1818
2. When did Karl Marx die?March 14, 1883 (age 64)
3. Where was Karl Marx born?Trier, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany)
4. What is the intellectual influences?Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach, and classical political economists
5. Who was Karl Marx?Karl Marx was a German thinker who studied philosophy and wrote about how people work and live together. He was born in 1818 and became famous for his ideas about society and economics.
6. What are the two most famous books Karl Marx wrote?He wrote "The Communist Manifesto" in 1848 and "Das Kapital," a big work about capitalism that was published in three parts between 1867 and 1894.

Bourgeoisie: The capitalist class who own the means of production and employ wage laborers.
Proletariat: The industrial working class who, lacking their own means of production, sell their labor power.
Historical Materialism: Marx's theory that economic and social relationships are the primary drivers of historical change.
Alienation: The estrangement of individuals from the products of their labor, their own selves, and society under capitalism.