KARL MARX

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• KARL MARX (noun)
  The noun KARL MARX has 1 sense:

1. founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)

  Familiarity information: KARL MARX used as a noun is very rare.

• KARL MARX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Karl Marx; Marx

Instance hypernyms:

economic expert; economist (an expert in the science of economics)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

revolutionary; revolutionist; subversive; subverter (a radical supporter of political or social revolution)

 Context examples 

On the one shelf at the library he found Karl Marx, Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Mill, and the abstruse formulas of the one gave no clew that the ideas of another were obsolete.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)