"Carlitos" Marx

Karl Marx was born in May of 1818 in Treveris, Germany, inside a Jewish family. He studied law, philosophy and in 1841 finished his doctorate studies. Thru his life, he lived in important cities like Berlin, Bruselas, Paris and London, where he died in March of 1883. During his time in Paris he met his friend Friedrich Engels, how was the most important of his collaborators and give him economic support in many times.

Marx’s work goes thru history, sociology, economy, philosophy and politic. His most important work is “The Capital”, where he analyzed the course of political economic and capitalism as economic and social model in modern society. In this work we can find concepts very important for sociology like social class, work value, work worth, merchandise, capital, capital production, capital circulation, surplus value, absolute surplus value, relative surplus value, capital accumulation, etc.

Anyway, “The Capital” is not the only book where we can find his theory. There are other works like “The Communist Manifesto”, “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844”, “Theses oh Feuerbach” and “The German Ideology” where we can learn and understand more about Marx’s thoughts.

I like Marx not only because his ideology, the socialism, which suggests that to end with overexploitation means of production, must belong to the proletariat and change the actual structure of our society. I think he is a sociologist that must be recognized because his work is a huge and very important contribution to social knowledge. He is one of the bases of modern sociology. And his studies are so big and deep that shows how smart he was.