How to Pronounce "marx"
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A German surname most famously associated with Karl Marx, the 19th-century philosopher and economist who developed the theory of communism and wrote Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. Also refers to the Marx Brothers, a legendary American comedy team.
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Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848.
Marx's ideas about class struggle remain influential today.
The Marx Brothers were famous for their comedy films.
We spent the whole semester studying Marx and Engels in our political philosophy class.