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Marx
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marx
English
+ (surname)
Etymology
en de Marx.
Pronunciation
en /mɑːks/ RP
en /mɑɹks/ GA
en en-us-Marx.ogg US
en marks marques
Proper noun
en German
en Bill Gladstone The oldest family in the world w:Jewish Telegraphic Agency https://www.jta.org/2004/10/24/lifestyle/the-oldest-family-in-the-world 2004-10-24 The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself. https://web.archive.org/web/20260226170126/https://www.jta.org/2004/10/24/lifestyle/the-oldest-family-in-the-world 26 February 2026
Karl Marx (1818–1883), a German political philosopher, economist and sociologist.
1937 August, Lawrence Martin, "The Odyssey of a Bogeyman", Esquire, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 39:
This is one of the developments Karl Marx failed to predict. Had he foreseen it he might have expired in guffaws, rolling in the aisle of the British Museum Library amid the notes for Das Kapital, that bearded Santa Claus of the revolution who slipped the unwanted gift of communism down the world's chimneys.
en 2017-10-25 Alison Flood Russian revolutionaries' children ‘read classic fiction, not Marx’ w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/25/russian-revolutionaries-children-read-classic-fiction-not-marx He discovered that far from focusing on the writings of Marx and Engels for their reading, the Bolsheviks and their children preferred expressly anti-revolutionary works by western authors such as Dickens, Defoe, Shakespeare, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, Goethe, Kipling and Wilde. https://web.archive.org/web/20261023042716/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/25/russian-revolutionaries-children-read-classic-fiction-not-marx 23 October 2026
en 2020-03-05 Ernesto Cardenal died on March 1st w:The Economist https://www.economist.com/obituary/2020/03/05/ernesto-cardenal-died-on-march-1st In his experience, Christ had led him to Marx, and the Gospels, with their message of social justice, had led him to communism. https://web.archive.org/web/20201103054116/https://www.economist.com/obituary/2020/03/05/ernesto-cardenal-died-on-march-1st
Derived terms
en Marx generator Marxian marxisant Marxisation Marxism Marxist Marxista Marxite Marxize Marxoid Marxolatry Marxology Marxophone
Translations
surname
Amharic: am ማርክስ
Arabic: ar مَارْكْس marks
Armenian: hy Մարքս
Belarusian: be Маркс
Bengali: bn মার্ক্স
Bulgarian: bg Маркс
Burmese: my မာ့ခ်
Catalan: ca Marx
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 馬克思 Mǎkèsī
Czech: cs Marx
Dutch: nl Marx
Finnish: fi Marx
French: fr Marx
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Marx
Georgian: ka მარქსი
German: de Marx
Greek: el Μαρξ
Hebrew: he מרקס marks
Hindi: hi मार्क्स
Italian: it Marx
Japanese: ja マルクス Marukusu
Kannada: kn ಮಾರ್ಕ್ಸ್
Khmer: km ម៉ាក្ស
Korean: ko ^마르크스
Lao: lo
Macedonian: mk Маркс
Malayalam: ml മാർക്സ്
Marathi: mr मार्क्स
Mongolian: mn Маркс
Odia: or ମାର୍କସ
Persian: fa مارکس mârks
Portuguese: pt Marx
Punjabi: pa ਮਾਰਕਸ
Romanian: ro Marx
Russian: ru Маркс
Sanskrit: sa मार्क्स
Santali: sat ᱢᱟᱨᱠᱥ
Serbo-Croatian: sh Маркс, sh Marx
Sinhalese: si මාක්ස්
Spanish: es Marx
Tajik: tg Маркс
Tamil: ta மார்க்சு
Telugu: te మార్క్స్
Thai: th มาร์กซ์ mâak
Tibetan: bo མར་ཁེ་སི
Turkish: tr Marx
Turkmen: tk Marks
Ukrainian: uk Маркс
Urdu: ur مارکس mārks
Uyghur: ug ماركىس
Uzbek: uz Marks
Vietnamese: vi Marx, vi Mác
Yiddish: yi מאַרקס Marks
en Individuals Philosophers
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m-an
en Marx
Declension
cs proper noun
Related terms
cs marxismus marxista marxistický
Further reading
German
thumb|268px|Distribution of Marx around Germany
Etymology
de :abbr Markus 1
de Markus.
Pronunciation
de [maʁks]
de De-Marx.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Marx
Proper noun
surname
de
Derived terms
de Marxist
de Marxismus
Hungarian
hu:
Pronunciation
hu Marx
hu ɒrks 1
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu
Karl Marx
Declension
Marxo oMarx ai
Derived terms
hu marxi
See also
hu marxista
hu marxizmus