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I AM NOTHING AND SHOULD BE EVERYTHING - a quote from Karl Marx (1818 - 1883). The German philosopher, economist, and social theorist.
The son of a lawyer, he was born in Trier and studied law and philosophy at Bonn and Berlin.
In 1844 he began his life-long collaboration with Friedrich Engels, with whom he developed the Marxist philosophy, Which contains the theory demonstrating the material basis for all human activity: "Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life".
Both joined the Communist League, a German refugee organization, and in 1847 - 1848 they prepared its program, the Communist Manifesto. After being expelled from Prussia in 1849 he settled in London and is buried in Highgate cemetery.