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- When in the University of Berlin, Marx was part of a movement called the Young Hegelians, who strongly criticized the political and cultural establishments of the day.
- There he was introduced to the philosophy of the late Berlin professor G.W.F Hegel, and helped to challenge existing institutions and ideas on all fonts, including religion, philosophy, ethics and politics.
- When working as a journalist, the governments of German, France and Belgium expelled him, due to the radical nature of his writing.
- Marx and Engels published 'The Communist Manifesto' together, which introduced their concept of socialism as a natural result of the conflicts in a capitalist system.
- In 1867, he published the first volume of "Capital" (Das Kpital), in which he laid out his vision of capitalism and its inevitable tendencies towards self-destruction, and took part in a growing international workers' movement based on his revolutionary theories.