2807 Karl Marx is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh in 1969. It is named after Karl Marx, the German philosopher whose theories comprise the basis of modern communist thought.
Little is known about Karl Marx's nature, but it is known to be a C-type asteroid, meaning that it is dark in colour and carbonaceous in composition.
Most Northerly Declination: − 3°37' on 31-Dec-2003 23 h UT
Most Southerly Declination: −27°26' on 31-Dec-2004 23 h UT
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“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.... It is not “history” which uses men as a means of achieving—as if it were an individual person—its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)