Marxism and The Communist Manifesto retain vitality in China.
The Communist Party of China has combined the basic principles of Marxism with the realities of new China (the People's Republic of China founded in 1949) to bring historical achievements as well as deep and fundamental historical changes to the country, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the gathering on Friday. Xi reviewed the great revolutionary and philosopher's life in his speech.
Marx was born on May 5, 1818 to a lawyer family in the German city of Trier (then in Rhenish Prussia).
After he received a doctorate degree from the University of Jena, he moved to Cologne in 1842 where he wrote for Rheinische Zeitung (Rhineland News), attacking the authoritarian rule of the Prussian government and advocating the rights of the people.
After Marx moved to Paris with his wife Jenny Von Westphalen in 1843, he joined the mass movement of the working class and refined his theories.
The first edition of The Communist Manifesto, written jointly by Marx and Engels, was published in German in 1848. In 1867, the first volume of Das Kapital, known as the "bible of the working class," was published.
