And, oh, he is now 18 feet tall. ... Trier, Germany is hosting a party for the 200th birthday of philosopher Karl Marx, but some see one of the gifts as cause for concern.

TRIER: As Germany prepares to mark Karl Marx's 200th birth anniversary, the revolutionary philosopher's legacy remains divisive more than a quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall. With ...

Director and co-writer Raoul Peck, as it turns out, not only understands those contradictions, he is committed to embracing them, which is what makes “The Young Karl Marx” the audacious ...

On Saturday, Karl Marx turns 200 years old. A German dissident who spent most of his days in exile, Marx devoted his life to the notion that a literal heaven-on-earth was just a revolution away.

Karl Marx, who was an acute analyst of society, though less successful as a revolutionary prognosticator, wrote one of the most evocative sentences on modern times when he described how under ...

Karl Marx once gifted a signed copy of “Das Kapital” to scientist Charles Darwin, but the book remained largely unread, providing an “amusing insight” into the dynamics between these two ...

Karl Marx's face adorns the souvenir €0 bills from Trier, Germany. "The souvenir plays on Marx's criticism of capitalism," said Norbert Kaethler, managing director of Trier's tourism and ...

Karl Marx never visited India. In fact, he did not even step out of Europe. Born in the German city of Trier on May 5, 1818, Marx spent his early years in Bonn, Berlin, Paris, Cologne and Brussels ...

How Friedrich Engels, 'Marx's General,' Helped Lead The Revolution Friedrich Engels wasn't born a revolutionary, but over the course of several beer-soaked days in Paris, he became part of "the ...

Now he hopes to stimulate debate with 500 gnome-like figurines of Karl Marx in Trier, but he might not hit his ... (3.3 feet) tall, portrays Marx in the exact same pose, but in different shades of ...