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Question
Who was Karl Marx? Name his outstanding work.
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Solution
Karl Marx (1818-83) was a German political philosopher and economist. He wrote “Communist-Manifesto”. Due to his revolutionary ideas, he had been compelled to leave Germany and make London his homeland.
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