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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
Historian
Journalist
Philosopher
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Revolutionary
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Treveris
Karl Heinrich Marx
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