Karl Marx lived from 1818-1883, he organized revolutionary socialists through active campaigning, polemical tracts calling for revolution, such as the Communist Manifesto, which he wrote with Friedrich Engles, and three volumes of scholarly analysis and critique of he capitalist system called Das kapital. One of Marx's well-known ideas that have been more cultural then economic is that "...wealth is produced no so much by capitalists, who control the finances, but by the proletariat-the laborers-who do the actual physical work of the production." Since this is not well known, the workers…
