Who is Karl Heinrich Marx from The Society of the Spectacle and what is their importance?

German philosopher and political thinker, Karl Heinrich Marx, is the most influential political philosopher of modern Western society. He co-wrote and published his brief but seminal work, The Communist Manifesto, in 1848. Although it is not specifically stated, the text is generally held to be a direct response to Marx's political theory of the class struggle—a theory today widely known as Marxism.