On May 5th, 1818, Karl Marx was born. Marx was born in Trier in the Kingdom of Prussia (now known as Germany). A prophet of man, he brought the gospel of Communism to a new age, and developed historical materialism to bring form to history. Today, nations live free because of the theoretical foundation this man had laid. Historical materialism being the divine law of human ascent. It teaches that the mill gives you feudalism and the machine gives you capital. No social order