Born in Trier, Prussia, to Heinrich and Henriette Marx on May 5, 1818, Karl Marx would grow up to be a radical, revolutionary thinker and disciple of sociology, whose ideas would influence the world long after his death (Steven Kreis, 2008). Marx's first experience with radical thought occurred during his studies at the University of Berlin as a member of the Young Hegelians, a group whose criticism of Christianity was considered controversial at the time (Kreis, 2008). After receiving his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena, he devoted himself to journalism, becoming editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, where he wrote several increasingly revolutionary works that were “suppressed for their derisive social and political content” (Janet Beales Kaidantzis, n.d.). . Marx emigrated to France and formed a lifelong friendship with Friedrich Engels, as well as becoming co-editor of another radical left-wing newspaper, the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (Kries, 2008). While in Paris and having been influenced earlier by his newspaper work in Prussia, Marx began to develop and theorize his ideas of communism, detailing the economic ideas of "Marxism" and publishing numerous essays, documents and manuscripts such as The Economic and philosophical manuscripts (Jonathan Wolff, 2011). During the storm of protests, rebellions and revolutions that swept Europe in that period, Marx published numerous works and books of which the most famous is the Communist Manifesto, "his most read work" before settling in London, England in 1849 (Wolff, 2011). As stated on the Sanford University web page on Marx (Wolff, 2011), “He now focuses on the study of economics,” detailing ideas and works in which he “sketches what… middle of paper… ...it happened when we as human beings tried to realize the utopia that Marx had imagined, and the biggest question seems to be: will we ever achieve that perfect society in a world where industry has taken a backseat? and the transition to communism has not yet occurred, how could Marx change his theories, if at all? What impact do his ideas have on us today, in modern times, probably completely different from those of two centuries ago, and if they don't do it at all, would it still be important to learn them now? society (Ollman, 2004)? If that was the case then, would it be different now, after the development of various other theories related to sociology? The questions, just like his ideas and theories, are endless.