Marx in London
When Karl Marx arrived in London as a refugee in 1849, he believed his stay would be brief – little did he know that he would remain for the rest of his life, or how profoundly the city would shape him.
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Rafael Khachaturian is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
When Karl Marx arrived in London as a refugee in 1849, he believed his stay would be brief – little did he know that he would remain for the rest of his life, or how profoundly the city would shape him.