ived in Manchester, where they owned a textile business. Engels maintained Marx financially for the rest of Marx's life, enabling him to produce his work. A few years after he met Engels, Marx elaborated on the basic system of ideas that was to became known as Marxism, and became the intellectual foundation of Communism. Marx was expelled from France in 1845, so he went to Brussels, where he and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto, published in 1848 (Magee, 179). Marx was duly expelled from Brussels in the same year, and ended up in London in 1849. He spent the rest of his life there. Most of his writings consisted of brilliant pamphlets and articles, but there was one full-length book, his masterpiece, Das Kapital, meaning simply "Capital", published in 1867. It is one of the most influential books in history. Marx died in London in 1883, and is buried in Highgate Cemetery.
             Within seventy years after Marx's death there were people living under governments called "Marxist." These included countries in Eastern Europe, Russia, the former Tsarist land empire, and China (Gurley, 89). Nothing lik
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