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22. Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a bright man who is today remembered for, along with Friedrich Engels, writing the Communist Manifesto. He was exiled from his native Germany due to his extreme political views and lived much of the rest of his life in England, mostly impoverished and supported by the generosity of Engels. Then and now, people either love him or hate him. What they can’t do is ignore him.