Introduction: Karl Marx's life. The German philosopher Karl Marx became one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Germany. He studied law and philosophy at university in Germany. See image 1 . Marx associated with the influential philosopher Friedrich Engels. Together they developed and built on theories of capitalism, socialism and historical change. Marx's most influential theories were published in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and the Das Kapital (1867).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Democratic globalization is a social movement towards an institutional system of global democracy that would give world citizens a say in world organizations. This would, in their view, bypass nation-states, corporate oligopolies, ideological NGOs, cults and mafias.
The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit that measures the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 165 are UN member states. The index was first produced in 2006, with updates for 2008, 2010 and the following years since then.