What did Karl Marx think of Britain?

Marx considered Great Britain the most important capitalist country of his time and a decisive factor in the possibility of a successful workers uprising in Europe. Let see it with his own words: Cologne, December 31, 1848. read more

Karl Marx was born in 1818 and died in 1883. Marx was a German Jew. His father was a lawyer. When Marx was six years of age, his family became Christian but religion never appealed spiritually to Marx who later referred to it as “the opium of the people”. read more

Marx focused on Britain rather than US in many of his writings, since he felt Britain to be the historical heartland of economic industrialism and, of course, because it was a country he had personal experience with, living in Britain for much of his life. read more