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Today, we gather here filled with reverence to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, remember his strong character and historical achievements, and review his eminent spirit and brilliant ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marx is the revolutionary leader of the proletariat and the working people the world over, the principal founder of Marxism, the founder of Marxist parties and of the international communist movement, and the greatest thinker of the modern era. Two centuries have passed, during which human society has undergone massive and profound changes. However, Marx\u2019s name continues to be met with respect around the world, and Marx\u2019s theories continue to emanate their brilliant rays of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On May 5, 1818, Marx was born in Trier, Germany, into a lawyer\u2019s household. As early as his middle school years, Marx aspired to work toward human happiness. During his university years, Marx undertook extensive and intensive studies into philosophy, history, and law in pursuit of the secrets underlying the development of human society. When he was working for the Rheinische Zeitung newspaper, Marx wrote incisive articles attacking the autocratic rule of the Prussian government and defending the rights of the people. In 1843, after he moved to Paris, Marx became an active participant in the workers\u2019 movement. In the course of his participation he brought together revolutionary practice with theoretical inquiry, thus completing his shift from idealist to materialist and from revolutionary democrat to communist. In 1845, Marx and Engels coauthored The German Ideology<\/em>, which was the first relatively systematic elaboration of the basic principles of historical materialism. In 1848, Marx and Engels coauthored Manifesto of the Communist<\/em> Party<\/em> \u2013 which, once published, immediately shook the world. Of Manifesto of the Communist Party, Engels said that it is \u201cthe most widespread, the most international production of all socialist literature, the common platform acknowledged by millions of workingmen from Siberia to California.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1848, as the bourgeois democratic revolution sweeping across Europe erupted, Marx threw himself into and guided this struggle. Following the failure of the revolution, Marx reviewed the lessons learned from the revolution and subjected them to a systematic politico-economic analysis, thus revealing the nature and patterns governing capitalism. In 1867, Capital was published, which is his most profound and fecund work, and which has been honored as the \u201cBible of the working class.\u201d In his later years, Marx continued to closely watch new trends in global development and new events in the workers\u2019 movement, making great efforts at reflecting on issues concerning human development from an even greater viewpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marx\u2019s life was a life of harboring lofty ideals and of dedication to the struggle for the emancipation of humankind. In 1835, a 17-year-old Marx wrote a high-school graduation composition entitled \u201cReflections of a Young Man on the Choice of a Profession\u201d in which he wrote, \u201cIf we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually be at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.\u201d Throughout his life, Marx encountered hardships from an errant life and suffered poverty and illness, yet he stayed the course, never swayed from his original aspiration, dedicated himself to the lofty ideal of the emancipation of humankind, and accomplished a life of greatness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marx\u2019s life was a life of defiance in the face of hardships and of bravely scaling new intellectual heights in search of truth. Marx once wrote that, \u201cThere is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.\u201d In founding his scientific theoretical system, Marx endured hardships unimaginable to most ordinary people until ultimately arriving at the luminous summit. Being well-read and erudite, he not only thoroughly understood and studied the scholarship of all disciplines of philosophy and the social sciences, but also that of a range of natural sciences, diligently working to draw pabulum from the civilizational achievements of all of humankind. Throughout his life, Marx selflessly dedicated himself to his work, regularly working sixteen hours a day. Of his work Capital<\/em>, Marx once wrote a letter to his friend saying that, \u201cI was perpetually hovering on the verge of the grave. Therefore I had to use every moment in which I was capable of work in order that I might finish the task.\u201d Despite constant illness in his later years, Marx still continued to stride toward new scientific fields and objectives, and he wrote an immense number of scientific manuscripts in the fields of history, humanities, and mathematics. Just as Engels said, \u201cIn every single field which Marx investigated \u2013 and he investigated very many fields, none of them superficially \u2013 in every field, even in that of mathematics, he made independent discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marx\u2019s life was a life of ceaseless fighting to topple the old world and create it anew. As Engels said, \u201cMarx was before all else a revolutionist… Fighting was his element. And he fought with a passion, a tenacity, and a success such as few could rival.\u201d Marx\u2019s lifelong mission was to struggle for the emancipation of humankind. In order to change the people\u2019s lot of suffering exploitation and oppression, Marx threw himself without hesitation into the dynamic worker\u2019s movement, always standing at the vanguard of the revolutionary fight. Under his leadership, the Communist League was founded in 1847, which was the world\u2019s first proletarian party, and he led the International Workingmen\u2019s Association which was the world\u2019s first international workers\u2019 organization. He also zealously supported the Commune of Paris, the first revolution in which the working class seized political power, and fervently and unrelentingly drove the development of the workers\u2019 movement across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marx was a great man of indomitable spirit, yet he was also a man of flesh and blood. He loved life, and was sincere, honest, sentimental, and fair-minded. Marx and Engels\u2019 revolutionary friendship lasted for 40 years. Just as Lenin once said that, \u201cOld legends contain various moving instances of friendship,\u201d but that Marx and Engel\u2019s friendship \u201csurpasses the most moving stories of the ancients about human friendship.\u201d Marx unselfishly financed the revolutionary cause; even during the most difficult times of his life he gave his utmost to help his revolutionary comrades-in-arms. Marx and his wife, Jenny, endured these hardships together, composing a providential symphony of ideals and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please Download for Full Text<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n