The Left Wing Hall Of Fame: Karl Marx

KARL MARX:

The man who started it all. Karl Marx, though not the inventor of socialism, was one of its most influential followers (along with vastly underrated colleague Fredrich Engels). Exploding into the minds of other radicals like Lenin, Marx published books such as Das Kapital, a criticism of capitalist thought, and The Communist Manifesto, a collaboration with Engels proposing the communist theories of revolution to overturn the bloated, corrupt upper class. Though controversial even now, Marx was nevertheless a very important figure in the left wing movement.