w. . nothing kept at the gym well i guess sometimes i am but i said nothing which to me to germany thinks deep into the general culture of looking at stereotypes the question but if you think this leaves the country that i don't. yet you don't seem prepared for this drama yeah you just it's cold out there bob i might show join me from the german sunday w. . post. and i'll be putting on a category with freud and darwin is three thinkers who are vastly expanded our human knowledge and autonomy. to quote. vehicles he was the first economist to

describe the basic laws mechanisms that drive our economic order and much of that is still relevant today before. to do so marxism has long played the most important role in chinese society and will continue to do so in the future properties to. area. hospitals and live. shot of the lights from marks only big enough bottles for. those seemingly alternative to capitalism people just to get stalled in a mile would say the alternative doesn't work. best buy the stocks with what i find most compelling about mark says his belief that social liberation for the individual can only happen if that hope for liberation is available to everyone. come on it's was a full. journalist and economist two hundred years after his birth his ideas are

still relevant. today the sweeping changes happening in the wake of globalization sparking fresh debate about capitalism and social inequality. marx himself insisted that the job of philosophers was not just to interpret the world but to change it. over the years many have sought to put his ideas into practice in widely differing ways and with widely varying results. in many parts of the world people have invoked col marx proclaimed revolutions in his name ten society on its head. most of those experiments are now history

but capitalism which marx despised has proven more resilient than he would ever have imagined but it's just the traditional marxist idea that you enact a revolution and put others in charge and your problem is solved that's proven itself a failure and it's no surprise when you have class struggle and suddenly everything is turned around it and the previous winners are now losers they won't just suddenly roll over and give up. the place for change to happen we need social solidarity for everyone.

the industrial revolution was the central preoccupation of the nineteenth century. its groundbreaking inventions would radically transform people's lives but also bring catastrophic working conditions to the new factories. the misery and deprivation sparked numerous uprisings across europe. marx was born into a tranquil town in what is no west in germany. come out so simply of karl marx's a native traitor which is of particular interest to the chinese because they adore marx it's why our city has

a very intensive relationship with china through you know. dishes in homs the chinese offered us a sculpture as a gift for karl marx's two hundredth birthday we looked into the idea and located a place to put it under the sets me he said the. cloths. on the grooves then we had gold over the size and arrived at a total height of five metres fifty's but on the chinese were happy with that because five five years marks his birthday and that's often wish we hadn't even noticed that symbolism but it helped us arrive at the compromise on size of rebuilding the base and the sculptures being made in china. and she know if it is going to work with how they'll bring the sculpture here in the spring and then inaugurated on may fifth one from just my. luck spent his childhood in t.n. as a do his father a law. oir was not permitted to practice his profession in pressure the family

converted to protestantism. at nineteen camargue began studying law in bonn a year later he moved to berlin. the limb is also where marx first became interested in philosophy which eventually became his focus. marks a systematic study of higgens doctrine of dialectics would become the cornerstone of his future ideas and work. as marx would later argue industrialization gave rise to a new economic system capitalism and a new class of people the proletariat this new proletariat he believed would inevitably cast of the yoke of capitalist oppression and give rise to a new social order. but this revolution was a long time coming it did not take place until long after marxist death and it

happened where marx least expected it in backward russia with vladimir lenin the communist revolutionary at its head. leaning by as i had yet seen in all men who had for decades associated with a group of left wing politicians the second international they all believed that if they educated workers about their true situation workers would all refuse to go to war against one another instead of the international problem would join forces and unite and spark a world revolution. just wished that didn't happen which was a crushing blow for many socialists lenin included. got our. first world war the first total which demanded not only mobilization. an army of

mobilization of the civilian population to meet the needs of the more affluent and this was something in his system simply could not cope with. increasingly food was short the only party those calling clearly for an end to the war is the bolshevik party using this rising tide of antiwar feeling lenin begins to argue for the bullshit party must seize power in the name of the soviet. mugs is often said to be deterministic in the sense that he thought that socialism would come about fairly inevitably from the contradictions of capitalism lenin was much more of a volunteer a study he believed in will power and lenin didn't think that capitalism alone would create revolution so lenin developed this very particular conception of the party in which professional revolutionaries would lead to the masses.

without lenin there wouldn't have been a bolshevik revolution. if i thought so at the revolution was a hugely charismatic event for some vision and inspiration for others a nightmare and so on. then it's hope was that the russian example would be taken up by the german workers and that the two countries in alliance could make a revolution and overcome russia's problem which was its intense poverty and its intense social and economic backwardness. germany was absolutely central in the perspective of the ball. civics for the first few minutes.

was a look from rosa luxemburg and karl liebknecht founded the spartacus league in response to russian events they hope germans had grown so tired of war and its cost so dissatisfied that a revolution might be possible also feeling hurt despite an atty cargo shorts on his young. they tried three times and they failed and i think they failed not because of poor tactics but because they were up against a much much stronger opposition. as a student in berlin became known among his fellow students for his keen intellect he was considered a leftist which drew the attention of the press in secret police. months completed a doctorate but his left wing ideas made it impossible to secure an academic post. in only eight hundred forty two he began working for a daily newspaper in cologne the harnish outside which was critical of the present

government in berlin. mugs use the newspaper to describe the desperate conditions of the working class the senses bands many of his articles bus in his short tenure as the paper's editor marx helped change the face of political journalism. what it told us journalists and also had a powerful impact on mark zero for the newspaper editor he was forced to address the struggles faced by local farmers at the dawn of capitalism that says that before that he was an intelligent clever radical thinker but very abstract and idealistic. i'm going to and i began reading mark shortly after finishing my confirmation classes but quick god hadn't answered me so i think looking for someone else who could explain the world to me in food and knocks the question how

i came to the early marx and i was basically the air of german idealism as well as i'm conceited you want to explain the world and help create a new society based on a principle both always driven by an immensely important desire for freedom. marks marks the prophet flights the icons who are as revered as someone who promised salvation to humankind he never actually existed. that image is the result of bad propaganda as a target function. on. that propaganda would later also be used to glorify the outcomes of communist revolution. these propaganda posters say nothing of the millions who were killed in the subject union under stalin and in china under mao zedong. this idea put each has its extreme nancy where the

emphasis is very very much on the will of the communists. today there are many people who say china has already ceased some stitches now a capitalist economy in a capsule this world with a regime that is communist in name only i'm not sure that we've seen. this story maybe in twenty fifty there will be a chinese state but still calls itself socialist. if you lose you since two thousand and eight the crisis of capitalism has steadily grown more acute but what does this crisis mean today we find ourselves confronted with the very same questions that karl marx once face. says yes i knew that loves you. it's often said that the chinese

revolution was a peasant revolution that is basically true mao sort ways of engaging presence through for example using traditions of opera. please tell. me if. the problem about socialism in backward countries was that although it aspired to give people decent conditions of life it effectively meant squeezing the population for the resources that were needed to build a strong industrial and military state. mark

for every chinese person knows him. here you're not marxism leninism is the basis of our political system. we had big posters of marx at school that's how i came to know marxism right now my focus is on my own quality of life that's enough for me to go and make a hole in the mother in the machine you. must first want to be honest i believe marxism is slowly being forgotten right now long. gone. too good be those so called. the chinese government is investing a great deal of money to popularize marxist ideas in the form of books modern media

and even its own t.v. show. and when young children come into the church and we whole. many young people wrote to us after the show they said it had given them an entirely different picture of karl marx marx was no longer just a poster hanging on the wall which they could now relate to him in their real actual lives. marx is still influential and even very influential he's still relevant today and his ideas are still useful at the nineteenth national congress of the communist party it was decided that china will be a modern socialist country by the middle of this century. would you think this is the. place and be.

my central theme is the great seeker. this is at the core of marxist thought his philosophical views and his life it's just all great individuals have two important characteristics to me first a j have made a meaningful contribution to human society. the end second their spirit is marked by firm conviction that a strong will and great determination because. these characteristics are

expressions in this work but. the statue of marks has a high forehead and deep set. but it's also decisive in the way that it strives to the future he is always looking forward to the future. what. the family is so obvious about. ok ok ok there's a young he's already seen it on so the height and the ground plan i hope it's exactly the way he imagined it the answers for you are my life just because i. am. coming and he's very pleased when you have inspired our young ok we have two versions up one pedestal has rounded corners and it's tearin school steps for that in the other version we're mainly using right angles midrash finger which to

see prefer. doesn't need any cannily at the fire and even. the rounded one with the rounded one ok. mark says happy to be coming back home. early eighteen forty three pression senses force the time should tighten in cologne to shut its doors. karl marx decided to leave for paris that same year he married his childhood sweetheart jenny from best filed. in the mid nineteenth century paris was a haven for free thinkers of all stripes they debated socialist and communist ideas such as the abolition of private property in paris marx met feed. a young

philosopher and revolutionary. marx was deeply impressed by innocence reports on the mystery of the english working class. marks decided to abandon journalism and focus on political and economic philosophy this is the period. it began rising about class struggle and the self emancipation of the proletariat. society all members of society are formally equal and have equal rights in reality the proletariat can only choose where to sell their labor and choose where they will be chained all the workers are paid for their labor twenty produce is not in service of their own needs but the needs of their employer. the worker produces grains for the mills of another. the worker is trapped in a vicious circle. his labor directly increases the wealth of the capitalists which only serves to intensify his own exploitation. society as

a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps into two great classes directly facing each other. if you. go to market you know market is amazingly relevant we've never had so many people in poverty or risk of poverty so many homeless and refugees and extreme wealth is exploding to an explosion if you like to us from today's working class includes white collar workers and salaried employees and i mean. when jobs are at risk mark says ideas often come into play for example when took up the fight against the plans of parent company general electric to slash jobs the friends coming this party supposed to fight. for example. i'm here to assure you of the full and

complete support of the communist party. i just said it in joint union meeting that we calculated how much the shareholders will gain from the merger this is ok are you that's why your fight is a just one we support here and in the entire country we don't do we'll continue forward together in social not messy. it's sushi. i believe the demonstration we've witnessed here with saddam employees is very typical of capitalism today it's a globalized capitalism which pits the workers of different countries or different locations against one another it turns workers into the playthings of globalization and so that they serve the interests of increasingly powerful groups this is a symbolic struggle to take a strong stand against capitalism the proletariat today must be much more united at

the international level what we're seeing now is that the ecological crisis and the massive social and ethical issues the world is facing today are bringing us to rethink our society as a whole. that's the genius of marx he understood that the contradictions within the system would become so extreme that we would eventually be forced to explore ways to overcome them todd. well. the french communist party was very strong after the second world war because it had played an important role in the fight against fascism in europe in the one nine hundred thirty s. . many important social and economic advances are communist in origin especially social security which was introduced by a communist minister in one thousand nine hundred five. i believe that euro communism was a key moment during the one nine hundred seventy s.

euro communism came into being when the european communist parties understood that the soviet system was collapsing. euro communism in western europe emerged under the shadows of the cold war the new reborn socialist model was to cast off the shackles of soviet doctrine and up ten democratic legitimacy. this idea found enthusiastic supporters in many countries especially italy and france. but even as communist parties in western europe increasingly distanced themselves from the soviet union communist east germany became ever more vocally supportive of moscow. in communist east germany the party to an authoritarian methods to enforce its interpretation of the marxist legacy in which the freedom of dissent had no place. in the renaming of camelot says karl marx on may tenth one thousand nine hundred

eighty three was an important acknowledgement of the revolutionary tradition in the city and the contribution made by its working class store workers and present state is. a professor left already created many statues of the greatest sons of our people time and again he has sought to fulfill lennon's legacy to immortalize the creator of revolutionary. a ministerial by drawing upon the art of monumental propaganda station beats with fifty because while working on his designs campbell read the works of marx he seeks to express the content of revolutionary marxist thought in visual form this was the irrepressible power of the passionate nature of the revolutionary and the scientist. this. is karl marx memorial designed by professor levy of him a bitch parable will bear witness to the shared struggle of the working class and

labors of the german democratic republic and the soviet union even in the ozone from the modes by for its easy. going to the institution to the to motionless applause of two hundred fifty thousand residents and guests comrade erich honecker said the day will come when all peoples will of cast off the shackles of exploitation you know they will build a monument to the man who found the key to human liberation captured under the motto workers of the world unite karl marx. there i heard about him in history classes and said he wrote about socialism but i don't know why chemists was renamed stott he wasn't a bad or evil man. i don't quite know what he did something to do

with communism was small so far but if his in his job i personally agree with him that company should belong not only to the bosses that's of the workers as well. or much of steve's. quantum on marx but in this germany marxist writings were readily available of course the serious with the blue covers i got them from my eighteenth birthday but if like me you interpreted marx in such a way that you then. criticised ruling ideology or the ruling political system things could get a bit difficult for you as really top marks on the farm so i started reading marx when i was eighteen i encountered him through my study of him and classical philosophy my interest in marx was an extension of that in a way it's marx is also an inheritor of the classical german philosophical tradition marx and it was indeed i kinda class of philosophy.

as a stinker. i believe marx very aptly predicted this concentration of capital we see today. the fact that capitalism is not simply a market economy but also contains the trends toward consolidation the formation of ever larger corporations but he understood that this would ultimately destroy productivity that's exactly what we're seeing today in so many areas four or five large companies dominate the market divided up to suit their own interests and then they're no longer as innovation oriented as our current economic system likes to believe. in a scene forty five prussia demanded that france extradite call monks. monks decided to emigrate to brussels. a few months later he was joined by. the pair wanted to pave the way for a new problem terry in passing and contacted him viking who had become a leading member of the new league of the just in eight hundred thirty six. marx

and engels had the group renamed the communist league and were commissioned to write its policy program at. the communist manifesto was published in eighteen forty eight a year of republican revolts against european monarchies. a specter is haunting europe the specter of communism all the powers of old europe have entered into a holy alliance to exercise the specter. let the ruling classes tremble or communistic revolution the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains they have a world where workers of the world unite. in the one nine hundred fifty nine a young charismatic revolutionary letter faction who overthrew the cuban dictatorship. fidel castro then established a socialist republic just off the shores. that bastion of capitalism the united

states. less than a decade later young people in capitalist countries rose up to oppose their parents' generation fidel castro and cheikh of our became the idols of the one nine hundred sixty eight student movement was not truly oh of course we invoked marx when we told ourselves that intellectuals were merely a superstructure from which the revolution couldn't emanate. the revolution we thought would have to emerge from the factory floor. many of us actually went to work in factories for months some for years. what we learned from the workers is that they weren't waiting for us to be their salvation. that's when the theory of false consciousness became popular. the idea that the workers didn't know what they truly needed that they'd been seduced by capitalism and that we had to explain to them their true needs. that's when we started to question marks. we cobble together

a new idea that consciousness had an important role to play in shaping the revolution. that was almost an marxist in a way because in classical marxism being determines consciousness and your revolution can only be achieved when the conditions of reality force you to imagine it can be done and trained. and there was something else within marx that's always bothered and repels me within the marxist edifice there is no single sentence that states simply thou shall not kill. there is no principle that would forbid you to kill and kill in large numbers in the name of revolution and believe mention to . desist from this lack of ethics is of course a terrible flaw that's inherent in the entire construction over and over again it's what's caused the edifice to collapse. in my view to spring.

what a giant it's huge. just like let's go to the other side of. there. you know. for the last. month yes some people prefer not to engage with it but i was a mayor in the former east germany and i saw how people suffered under marxism leninism how their freedom was taken from them by the constraints that were imposed

on them. that's why we have such difficulties with this ideology. let's find out if we agree that the work will be finished around christmas and in january the transport will be again any small problems we still have all solved by then. it will be. the year that the communist manifesto was published marx was forced to flee brussels and soon ended up back in cologne. he was brought up on charges of inciting the rebellion and acquitted again he was expelled and meanwhile he had also lost his question citizenship and become stateless. monks and his family went into exile in london. at the time london hobbit refugees from all over the world box and his family lived in abject poverty. three of the moxa six children died

from illness time and again and this came to their. with help from an inheritance the max family could move to a middle class apartment max then spent much of his time in the british museum's reading room where he worked on his most important manuscript. the first volume appeared an eight hundred sixty seven happy time capital of political economy. marx presented it to his publisher with the words. i don't believe anyone has ever written so much about money who has so little of it. in the u.k. unfortunately we're so used to move with marks and spencers which is a retail brand but because the culture i don't think has developed and i was much about karl marx as we should i think there's a little plaque on the house that they use here but i don't believe he wasn't british no two was he was he might might be something that i think most season is

clearly a very much a political philosophy that aspects of which are still subscribe to people like jeremy corbin that sort of thing in this country. clearly it's opposed to capitalism and here we are right in the center of capitalism in europe it's a real issue i think there's a lot of overseas investment chinese russian money you can drive around areas of north london and they have pretty much deserted which is a huge shame and the indigenous population has been forced to. kind of periphery of london if you want to different life unfortunately if you move out and you can get a better house bigger house better life maybe also london but it's going to cost you a lot of dollars of commute so yeah. when

i wrote my book since you boy. which is a massive warning about not to do what i did have become a banker every single email i've got many thousands of e-mails hose off from people who come from germany young men saying i read your book could you get me a job in a bank please don't think who cares if you're cheating society if you're earning that kind of money. i don't think what happened in banking is irrational with the financial crisis those guys who invented these false products but exploded a later date they were very rational because they would get a bonus every year before they were found out. everyone views paul marx quite simply as a discredited ideology you know capitalism won but he still had a lot of interesting things to say about the system we currently live in the

alienation it causes how it has possibly the seeds of its own destruction but one possible mistake you made thinking that just because your a member of the working class you will automatically have solidarity with everyone else and you will soon then realize that these capitalists are exposing you and there will be a world global revolution and so forth whereas the reality is that. there are many other things that give that can defy people so grace religion you know other aspects of your football team which city you're in with your country i call to see anything that is going to replace your lesson any time soon and we're all stuck with it. today many native londoners canelo longer afford to live in their own city. but london is still considered one of the witness

of neo liberalism and now the capital has become the symbol of the dark side of capitalism. athens after the two thousand and eight global finance crisis greece plunged into an economic depression its fate depended on the decisions of international donors since then the country has been in a permanent state of emergency capitalism brought excellent new joys and pleasures but the great beauty of pain and poverty and despondency that we have never experienced in the past. the global proletariat has increased that is not true the problem is for the west. of the jobs that migrate it left behind a part of europe that has become steeped in despondency in uncertainty in joblessness in lack of prospects. it's a dispositional issue but that was always the problem with companies it generates similar things three months wealth and new forms of the provision.

growing up in greece doing a dictatorship which banned marx gave me a great incentive to find out about this because you know how it is with young people he said to them. i don't know circumstances rick get it and then the only thing you want to do is read get beyond that i was extremely eager to understand that. there is a very interesting dichotomy in. liberal capitalist societies according to which the political sphere is democratized and the government's fear is completely hierarchical and feudal. box's view was if you cannot have democracy with the scripts whenever and that module you know wish creates a conscious state these attendances the owners of the supply of shipping to usage you know to the multiple eyes power over the rest of us and to deny us the benefits

of the knowledge it happened in the second investor pollution it's happening a lot more now with google facebook and be efficient engines internet based because . it is crucial. instead of losing. this fantastic approach to one of the community finds ways of democratizing this the tools that are. effective we produced jointly. bust your voice and leave this kind of what we are experiencing today as a transformation in the conditions of production which are blurring the boundaries between production and ordinary everyday activities and we're productive we're creating value when we carry out an online search on google. plus our many clicks generate profits for google. we don't like to think about it but it's a fact of the socialization of production we have today has taken on a completely new form different from anything marx could have imagined just don't

have a logical way of comprehending it yet of. people in power do whatever is necessary to maintain the status quo which they benefit from don't do what we call quantity meaning we'll just print money. interest rates don't do this they'll adapt and do some of the taxes whatever's necessary to maintain the system. in eight hundred eighty one comma wife jenny died of cancer. mark struggle to cope with the last two years later he died in his arm chair in his london. department. had smocks intuited that he would have been dismayed by some of the uses to which his writings were put over the year. though monks remained convinced of his ideas he was famously repos had to have said one thing is certain i'm not so cool to

marxist oh oh oh oh whoa hold. the end of his life marx was conventions and a functional democracy something you can do what we now call a social market economy if you found out of the operators nations would eventually emerge surely an entirely peaceful means which team could.

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