After receiving his doctorate, he could not find a teaching position due to his radical leftist views. He got a job as a newspaper editor at the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne, and as a foreign correspondent in London for the New York Tribune. He lost his job at the Rheinische Zeitung after writing an inflammatory article deeply critical of poverty and the government's repression of workers. He moved to Paris, where he got a job as coeditor of a journal in Paris, and married his college sweetheart, Jenny von Westphalen. But the journal went bankrupt and Marx was again unemployed, as he remained for most of his life. He was so poor that several of their children died of malnutrition. His friend and collaborator, economist Friedrich Engels, the son of a wealthy industrialist, supported him for many years, and together they wrote the Communist Manifesto (1848), one of the most influential books of all time.
In 1845, having been expelled from France for his involvement with the newly formed communist party, he moved to Brussels, where he wrote The German Ideology (1846) and The Poverty of Philosophy (1847). After attending the Communist League in
London that same year, he went to Cologne and tried to start up a communist newspaper but was expelled by the government. He moved to London, where he became a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune. He remained in London, studying in the reading room of the British Museum, where he wrote his Critique of Political Economy (1859) and Das Kapital (1867), his most important work, for which he is generally regarded as the most important figure in the history of socialist thought.
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