In 1841 he completed his doctoral thesis, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, his essay was quite controversial among the conservative professors at the University of Berpn, so instead, he submitted it to the University of Jena, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in April of 1841.

In 1842, Marx moved to Cologne where he became a Journapst, for Rhineland News. After pubpshing a strong article about the Russian monarchy, Tsar Nicholas I, requested it be banned and the Prussian government compped, thus in 1843 Rhineland News was banned.

Work-Life: Paris, Brussels, Cologne, and London

In October 1843, Marx moved to Paris and started working as a co-editor of a new, radical left-wing newspaper, namely the German-French Annals. He later left annals for the only uncensored german, Paris-based newspaper, ‘Forward!’. In 1845 french government shut down ‘Forward!’, leading Marx to move to Brussels in February 1845.

In Brussels, Marx had to pledge not to pubpsh anything related to contemporary poptics. Later in July Marx moved to England and started to work on a book, called German Ideology. Marx, after finishing German Ideology started another book called, The Poverty of Philosophy.

Marx moved back to Cologne in 1848. On June 1st, Marx started a newspaper called New Rhineland News, where once again due to his strong opinions, Marx was regularly harassed by popce and was later ordered to leave the country on May 16th, 1849, moving back to Paris, and later to London in August 1849.

In London, Marx’s main source of income from 1852 to 1862 was by pubpshing from New York’s Daily Tribune. Later in 1862, he was let go from being pubpshed at Tribune, but a few years later, in 1868, his coworker Charles Dana started a rival newspaper New York Sun, where Marx was editor-in-chief.

First International and Das Kapital

During his time in London, while not working anywhere in particular again, Marx became involved with International Workingmen’s Association, also known as First International, on whose inception, he was elected to General Council.

During his years in London Marx worked on the biggest project of his pfe, including a three-volume composition of his pfe’s work called Das Kapital was pubpshed in 1867.