Karl Marx is one of the most influential authors of Western political and cultural history. He devoted his first years of study to law, but later on he turned to philosophy. After the ban of the newspaper, he moved to Paris where he met Friedrich Engels, with whom he later issued the Communist Manifesto. He died in London in 1883. Despite the fact that Marx accepted certain elements of Hegel’s dialectic, he didn’t fully accept its speculative nature, for he was looking for contradictions more in the concrete historical social conditions, more specifically in the class struggle between workers and owners of the capital. His political vision was focused on the creation of an organization which would provide workers with the necessary political power.

He was one of the major personalities responsible for the creation of the International, which struggled to consolidate the socialist and communist groups around the world. The latter is also expressed in his thesis on Feuerbach, which says: "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."

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