Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in the Rhine province of Prussia, now in Germany. Marx was an economic theorist who composed the idea of communism which included the idea of all the people owning all the property and infrastructure. These theories played a large role in international politics and the cold war in the mid to late 20th century. Marx was the oldest surviving boy of nine children. (…showed first 75 words of 938 total…

…showed last 75 words of 938 total…socialist state. In time the state would pass all the property and infrastructure on the people. The people according to their needs would take these goods. Marx legacy still remains today; Cuba is still a fundamentally communist country although is not a communist country in the way Marx would have envisaged it. China is still a communist country that is slowly coming out of its isolation, however it still continues it human rights abuses.