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He also used this article to attack religion. Obviously both the Prussian government and some religious groups were upset over these attacks. Marx was still looking for a job after his graduating from the University of Jena. His articles turned out to help him more than he thought as he was offered a job. In 1843 he was offered a job at a daily newspaper. He was appointed to be editor-in-chief of the Rhine Gazzette. Marx loved being an editor. He liked choosing what went into the newspaper. He was able to write on his beliefs and also put in some of Hegel s philosophy. He published many works in the Rhine Gazette. This newspaper would have weekly columns on Socialist material. Though Marx had not fully begun his pro-socialist views, he was getting closer everyday. In one article

he attacked Russia and their policies. He made attacks on the Czarist society which in turn made them terminate Marx s job and pull the newspaper s license. This did not affect Marx very drastically. Marx was still being influenced every day. He read many works by pro-socialist writers, two of which were Pierre Joseph Proudhon and the Governor of Corsica, Louis Blanc. The writers expressed many ideas. They told how poverty and wealth was the root of all evil and that you should have nothing to call your own. These writers really wanted to help society and they expressed many very drastic ideas to do so. They wanted poverty to end and to help the welfare of the people. Marx finally married Jenny after seven years of engagement. Jenny was his youthful and only love. Around this

time Marx came to his final philosophical changes. He grew a relationship with Moses Hess, a communist rabbi , as Marx called him. Hess had converted others to communistic beliefs. Among these people was Friedrich Engels in1842. Friedrich was high class German, and he also helped convert Marx. Karl went to Paris, France, which was the place where most Hegelians and Communist/Socialists met. Marx was already considered a Socialist. But he still changed his views most drastically while in Paris. He really had no other changes in his philosophy after the meeting in Paris. All Karl s belief s were shaped now. He knew he was socialist and he knew he wanted to make a difference and change the world. He knew he didn t like Capitalism, he wrote, Capitalism grew up in the interstices of

feudalism, in the medieval trading towns, until it burst asunder its feudal fetters (The Wealth of Nations pg.2). He became good friends with Friedrich Engels and they wrote many works together. Of course, the most important work was the Communist Manifesto , which they wrote together even though they disagreed on some aspects of Communism. Both Marx and Engels never knew they changed the world. Approximately half of the world follows his writings and these countries include the Soviet Union (which recently broke up and formed a democracy) and China (which is still very communistic). Marx s philosophy s all took shape from the day he was born until the day he was about 28. Marx truly meant to do good for the world and make it a better place. He admittedly knew communism would

never work as he wrote in the Communist Manifesto that humans would be incapable of making it work because there would always be someone that would want the power.