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“ The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes and even cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity-and so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally.” Karl Marx said this. He was a philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionary in the nineteenth century. Karl was born in a middle class home in Trier, Germany on May 5, 1818. His family came from a long line of Rabbis. At seventeen years old Karl enrolled in the faculty of law at the University of Bonn. While he was the