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Postage stamp refs
A new editor, Kaushwiki, added a section in July about commemorative stamps. The user then posted bare urls directly into the Refs section of the article. I have removed these and placed them here, so that they can eventually be properly included.
It appears from their talk page that this editor has made similar edits to many other articles in their brief career here, and retired from Misplaced Pages after their behaviour was raised at ANI.
279. colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/178779-Karl_Marx_1818-1883_philosopher-Karl_Marx-Hungary. Catalog codes: Michel HU 1305C, Stamp Number HU 1042, Yvert et Tellier HU 1079A.
280. colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/176915-Karl_Marx_1818-1893_politician-Personalities-Hungary. Catalog codes: Michel HU 2068A, Stamp Number HU 1583, Yvert et Tellier HU 1680, AFA number HU 2024.
281. colnect.com/en/stamps/list/country/8663-India/item_name/karl+Marx. Catalog codes: Mi:IN 950, Sn:IN 1017, Yt:IN 761, Sg:IN 1084.
282. colnect.com/en/stamps/list/country/2650-Russia/year/2018/item_name/karl+Marx. Catalog codes: Col:RU 2018-18 and Col:RU 2018-18KB (Mini-sheet).
283. colnect.com/en/stamps/list/country/8150-Vietnam/year/1983/item_name/karl+Marx. Catalog codes: Mi:VN 1367, Sn:VN 1317, Yt:VN 462 and Catalog codes: Mi:VN 1368, Yt:VN 463.
284. colnect.com/en/stamps/list/country/2652-Soviet_Union_USSR/year/1933/item_name/karl+Marx. Catalog codes:
Mi:SU 424X-26X, Sn:SU 480-82, Yt:SU 473-75, Sg:SU 603-05, AFA:SU 431-33.
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.
References
Longuet, Robert-Jean (1977). Karl Marx mein Urgroßvater. Berlin. p. 16.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Monz, Heinz (1964). Trier. p. 164. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Baumeister, Jens (2017). Wie der Wein Karl Marx zum Kommunisten machte: Ein Kommunist als Streiter für die Moselwinzer. Trier. p. 32. ISBNISBN 978-3000564710. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Longuet, Robert-Jean (1977). Karl Marx mein Urgroßvater. Berlin. p. 52.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Please remove FRSA postnominal
The FRSA postnominal should be removed from the lede and infobox. Marx could not have had this postnominal in his lifetime as the organisation only got the Royal title in 1908. (Royal_Society_of_Arts). Moreover, FRSA is not an honour but represents a membership that is open to a wide range of people by paying a subscription. Related discussion here. Historylikeyou (talk) 13:31, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
I agree. Also, he is not known for being a member of the society, and it gives a false impression of who he was (e.g., that he was a Royalist).--Jack Upland (talk) 15:24, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
The MOS policy does not mandate inclusion of the FRSA postnomial, so it could be removed if there is consensus among editors on this page to do so. I will not remove it myself as the change has already been reverted. Historylikeyou (talk) 08:01, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Well, Marx must have thought it was worth having, or he wouldn't have applied. That's the important point; the other objections are formal. (1) 'Royal Society of Arts didn't exist in his time'. The society existed and so did the honour; it's just a formal change of name, like RSPCA or RNLI, or KC for QC. (2) 'Postnominals have no place in the lede': not WP policy. From MOS:POSTNOM:
"When the subject of an article has received honours or appointments issued either by the subject's state of citizenship or residence, or by a widely recognized organization that reliable sources regularly associate with the subject, post-nominal letters may be included in the lead section." And it gives the example
"Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, at the time of his death, was director of research at ..."
There are hundreds of others. FRSA is easy to misunderstand: it's not like a university degree; they don't give it out grudgingly, but you do have to convince them you share their values. Marx did.Ttocserp22:51, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
That doesn't mean that it should be in the lede of the article? Is there any secondary coverage of Marx's FRSA post-nom that shows that it is particularly noteworthy? :3 F4U (they/it) 20:57, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
Death
The last sentence in the death section is incoherent and does not make sense. I would fix it myself but without the source I don't know what the real meaning is supposed to be. Firestar47 (talk) 16:46, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
Changing nationality from German to German-born
Here's a suggestion to change Marx's nationality from "German" to "German-born", as he was stateless for most of his life. More specifically, change the first line from "was a German philosopher" to "was a German-born philosopher". This is in accordance with Albert Einstein's introduction "was a German-born theoretical physicist". Windywendi (talk) 04:00, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
Support further I would propose "German born Jewish", I actually came here to the talk page to question that, Karl did not consider himself German, merely born in Germany, his Jewish identity was foremost to him culturally (and in his early years religiously (familially at least)) where as where his parents were living when he popped out was irrelevant to him. I know it's probably not intentional anti-Semitism but it's kind of ... unfortunately forgetful to intentionally leave out the core of his ethnic identity as a person. 2001:8003:37B8:D900:24D5:557C:7DF6:530A (talk) 21:13, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
That is nonsense. Karl Marx had no "Jewish identity", certainly not as a central part of his identity. And his parents converted to Christianity before he was born; he had absolutely no Jewish religious upbringing. Nor is it antisemitic to point this out. RolandR (talk) 00:06, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
Juncker
Why is Jean-Claude Juncker labelled as being influenced by Marx. The fact that he opened a statue and defended him "historically" does not mean he is a marxist. he is merely defending the fact Marx has nothing to do with countries from after his death. That isn't political it's a neutral historical perspective. Danisnotunhappy (talk) 11:28, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
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