Talk:Karl Marx

House in Trier, Germany, where Marx spent his childhood and youth

Heinrich Marx, the father of Karl Marx, bought the small mansard roof building in Trier´s Simeonstrasse in 1819 when Karl was only one year old. The later socialist grew up here with his parents and five siblings and moved out aged 17 after his graduation from secondary school (Gymnasium). Yet as a grown up man, he returned to Trier several times to visit his relatives. Compared to today, little has changed in the historical city center of Trier: The main characteristics of the old town around the market place have been preserved and looked more or less the same back in the days when Karl Marx lived there. In particular the neighbourhood of the house to the Trier's most famous landmark, the Roman city gate Porta Nigra, is still impressive. In most parts unchanged to this day, it is likely that Karl Marx took the very same route to school every day that tourists can walk today. The house in Simeonstraße had a lasting impact on Karl Marx, especially since he had been educated here in home schooling until the age of 12. As an adult, Karl Marx returned to live with his family in this house during his visits several times. For example in 1841 after his doctoral studies in Berlin, Marx travelled back to Trier. The main reason for his return home was to be close to his long-term fiancée Jenny von Westphalen. Also in the following year, 1842, Karl Marx spent some months in the house in Simeonstraße 8 (then Simeongasse 1040) in order to take care of family matters.

Location of the house The former home of Karl Marx in Simeonstraße 8 (then Simeongasse 1040) looks rather unremarkable at the beginning of Trier's shopping promenade close to the famous Porta Nigra. Only a few minutes walk leads visitors to the bronze statue of Karl Marx by Wu Weishan – a present from the People's Republic of China to Trier.

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Why is their no criticisms section?

seriously how is their not one, this morons ideas resulted in the most oppressive regimes in history, from the ussr, ccp, nk, n Vietnam, the national socalist german workers party, communist Cuba and more. Resulting in over half a billion deaths, or is the pages content controlled by china?~2026-51018-3 (talk) 00:16, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Criticism of Marxism, Marxism#Criticism. Yue🌙 (talk) 20:31, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Because this page is about Marx, not Marxism Humaan316 (talk) 14:40, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

That's not true, you have criticisms of many public and historical figures on wikipedia. ~2026-40279-84 (talk) 05:30, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Humaan did not say the Wikipedia lacks criticisms in bio pages. But the suggestion by the anonymous editor has precious little to do with Marx himself. These are criticisms of Marxism as an ideology, the Marxism-Leninism variant in the Soviet Union, and probably Fidelismo/Castroism. Dimadick (talk) 05:40, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

I think we've already entertained this question sufficiently. No actionable request. Simonm223 (talk) 07:31, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 May 2026

Remove German Philosopher to German Social Scientist. ~2026-28349-36 (talk) 22:39, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before posting an edit request. Umby 🌕🐶 (talk) 23:03, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Karl Marx

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Karl Marx. — Goszei (talk) 20:40, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 June 2026

The caption of the map of all historically communist states, present and past, should be changed from "A map of all communist states" to "A map of all historically communist states, present and past" to be more clear that it's historical. ~2026-36428-53 (talk) 09:37, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

According the the file page, it is a "Map of states that officially identified as socialist in 1980", which isn't the same thing. It is also problematic because 'socialist' doesn't always equate to 'communist', and because Wikipedia needs to be wary of representing 'official identification' as undisputed fact. And, as some Marxists at least might object, a 'communist state' might seem a contradiction to Marx himself. To him 'communism', as a final goal, would only be achieved through the elimination of the state as an institution. In that perspective these states (or some of them) were led by parties that aspired to communism (or claimed to). Whether we need the map at all, and how it should be captioned, probably needs more thought. AndyTheGrump (talk) 09:49, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

I'd go with "Map of states that officially identified as socialist in 1980" as caption. Zalaraz (talk) 11:31, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Which rather begs the question as to why it is being included in an article on Marx. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:04, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Agreed, it should be removed. Zalaraz (talk) 15:06, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

As should the other map, logically. The degree to which current 'communist' states (or previous ones) have followed Max's concepts is again very much contested, as the article itself attempts to make clear. We shouldn't be using images to present opinion as fact. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:22, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

I've removed both maps per the above discussion and am closing the edit request. Day Creature (talk) 18:36, 23 June 2026 (UTC)