This developer of historical materialism wrote a tract that claims "a specter is haunting Europe" and ends by encouraging the proletarians of the world to unite.
This thinker argued that Octavian was a "grotesque mediocrity" imitating Caesar in a book stating that history repeats itself "first as tragedy, then as farce" in reference to Napoleon III. This man theorized that people not owning the product of their labor results in alienation from human nature. This developer of historical materialism wrote a tract that claims "a specter is haunting Europe" and ends by encouraging the proletarians of the world to unite. For 10 points, name this author who worked with Friedrich Engels on The Communist Manifesto.
This thinker argued that Octavian was a "grotesque mediocrity" imitating Caesar in a book stating that history repeats itself "first as tragedy, then as farce" in reference to Napoleon III.
Karl Marx