AGARTALA, May 5 (TIWN): CPI (M) on Thursday observed the birth anniversary of Karl Marx here at Melarmath party office in presence of the dignitaries of the CPI-m party. As a part of the program CPI-M Party leaders paid warm tributes to the revolutionary thinker and paid floral tribute at the portrait of Karl Marx.

Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany, on May 5, 1818. He acquired higher education at Bonn and Berlin universities. He and Fredrick Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto that pointed out that the known history of mankind was a history of class struggle.

Speaking on the occasion, Bijan Dhar, state secretary of CPIM said Marx was both a scholar and a political activist, often called the father of communism. Sometimes, he argued that his analysis of capitalism revealed that capitalism was destined to end because of unsolvable problems within capitalism, added Dhar.

Karl Marx was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia to a middle-class family, he later studied political economy and Hegelian philosophy.

As an adult, Marx became stateless and spent much of his life in London, England, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and published various works, the most well-known being the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto. His work has since influenced subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history.