2. Karl Marx

3. He was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier

5. In 1835 he went to Bonn University to study law and the year after he moved to Berlin

6. His original intention was to go on with his legal studies, but was drawn first into the philosophy of law, and then into philosophy

7. He was strongly influenced by Hegel’s ideas Karl Marx’s major ideas:

8. In 1841 received his doctorate for a thesis entitled ‘Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature’ Karl Marx’s major ideas:

9. He worked in a newspaper called “The Rheinische Zeitung” a year later he moved to Cologne and became its chief editor. In 1843 he and his family moved to Paris after censorship made his work almost impossible in Germany Karl Marx’s major ideas:

10. In 1845 Marx gets expelled from France and moves to Brussels, where he was soon joined by Engels Karl Marx’s major ideas:

11. In 1849, the Marx family moved to London and Marx obtained a ticket to the Reading Room of the British Museum. He started for the first time to study economics, drawing especially on the Economist Karl Marx’s major ideas:

12. Marx had originally intended the Contribution to be only the introduction to the ‘Economics’, which would be separated into six volumes: (1) Capital (2) Landed Property (3) Wage Labor (4) The State (5) International Trade (6) The World Market Karl Marx’s major ideas:

13. Marx abandoned the six-volume scheme, and decided instead to call the whole work Capital, which would be divided into four volumes (1)production (2)circulation (3)the system as a whole (4)theories of surplus value Karl Marx’s major ideas:

15. The first attempt to translate “Capital” was made back in 1927 by P. Pouliopoulos and G. Doumas Karl Marx in Greece:

16. Pouliopoulos was arrested by the fascist Metaxa’s regime, and then executed in 1943 by Italian forces during the occupation of Greece in the WW2 before he could finish his translation. Karl Marx in Greece:

17. The attempts that were made later by Giannis Kordatos and D. Pournaras were also never completed Karl Marx in Greece:

18. The first complete publication of “Das Kapital” was made by the lawyer Giannis Skouriotis in the 50’s. Skouriotis translated the text straight from the German prototype Karl Marx in Greece:

19. Skouriotis’s translation was published in several issues at his own expenses between 1954 and 1960 Karl Marx in Greece:

20. The complete translation that can be found in the market today was made by Panagiotis Mavromatis, a delegate of CPG. The first two volumes were published abroad, because the CPG was outlawed until the mid-70 Karl Marx in Greece:

21. The complete edition was made after the collapse of the military junta in 1974. In the following decade the Capital was printed in four volumes (including “surplus value theories”) Karl Marx in Greece:

22. From 1978 until 2009 the first volume sold over 23.000 copies, the second 15.000, the third 12.000 and the forth 8.000 Karl Marx in Greece:

23. From 1978 until 2009 the first volume sold over 23.000 copies, the second 15.000, the third 12.000 and the forth 8.000 Karl Marx in Greece: