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is written in and of i'll be putting in a category where freud in darwin is three thinkers who are vastly expanded our human knowledge and all of the time. to quote has been given 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 on this now before. to do so marxism has long played the most important role in chinese society and will continue to do so in the future profits. are supposedly the. child of man rights for marx only thinking about the street believes those seemingly alternative to capitalism people just get stalled in power the say the alternative doesn't work. 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. comet's was a philosopher 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 debates 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 on the history but capitalism which marx despised has proven more resilient than he would ever have imagined if you cut it so no marxist the traditional marxist idea that you and after revolution 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 and the previous winners are now losers they won't just suddenly roll over and give up. to press for change to happen we need social solidarity for everyone so the darvish is a shock. still

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. mux was born into

a tranquil town in what is no west in germany. comeupance was in fear of karl marx's a native of trigger which is of particular interest to the chinese because they adore marx and it's why our city has a very intensive relationship with china since you know. she is now mr chinese offered us a sculpture as a gift for karl marx's two hundredth birthday box and we looked into the idea and located a place to put it under the sets maty said in the. class. of a cruise then we had called over the size and arrived at a total height of five metres fifty's but on the ends of 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 it's just rebuilding the base and the sculptures being made in china. when she

harvard's school to work with her bring the sculpture here in the spring and then inaugurated on may fifth to him from his microphone i go to. mark spent his childhood interfere as a do his father a lawyer was not permitted to practice his profession in pressure the family converted to protestantism. at nineteen commerce began studying law in bonn a year later he moved to berlin. berlin is also where marx first became interested in philosophy which eventually became his focus. marks a systematic study of hitler's 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 come stuff 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 our side in our hand and 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 probably terry it would join forces and unite and spark a world revolution. that didn't happen which was a crushing blow for many socialists. lennon included that's

a god awful in. the first world war was the first total war which demanded not only mobilization of an army but mobilization of the civilian population to meet the needs of the more affluent and this was something the czarist system simply could not comprehend. increasingly food was short the only party in 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. bugs 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 the masses. without lenin there wouldn't have been a bolshevik revolution. the hundreds a lot of 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. to 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 bolsheviks for the first few years. was an optimal 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 for fever to smile and addie cry for any easier. 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. only eight hundred forty two he began working for a daily newspaper in cologne the harnish at sidetone which was critical of the present government in berlin. monks use the newspaper to describe the desperate conditions of the working class the census bans 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 journals and also had a powerful impact on marx you were 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 marx so i began reading marx shortly after finishing my confirmation classes but quick god hadn't answered me so i didn't want for someone else who could explain the world to me often for the nonce the quotes how i came to the early marx you know is basically the error of german idealism as i'm going to see if you want to explain the world to help create a new society based on the principles and always driven by an immensely important desire for freedom. marks marks the prophet flagstick icons who was revered as someone who promised salvation to humankind it if you never actually existed if you had that image as the result of bad propaganda there's a tarp fund clicked up going 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 a huge it's a strain 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 states that still calls itself socialist. if you lose you know it's so that 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. you know marx. 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. if anything. i think. 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 so the resources that were needed to build a strong and austria land military state. nothing marks every chinese person knows him. here you know marxism leninism is the basis of our political system. to our songs here that 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 sure you. know what's your problem to be honest i believe marxism is slowly being forgotten right now all the time you got. to go see 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 you ensure income into the team we hawt. 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 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. be. so. so. my central theme is the great seeker. this is at the core of marxist thought his philosophical views and his life because it's just all great individuals have two important characteristics. first they 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 and. these characteristics precious in this work but i think the statue of marks has a high forehead and deep set eyes. but it's also decisive in the way that it strives to the future he is always looking forward to the future. the family is all dharmas about. ok ok ok. he's already seen it on so the height and the ground plan i hope it's exactly the way he imagined it the us is fortunate she was my life just for saying. that i am

coming and he's very pleased when you have inspired our young ok we have two versions is up one pedestal has rounded corners and it's tearing steps or that you are in the other version we're mainly using right angles this myth version of english which does he prefers in the verse doesn't mean he can only act the fire and even civilian are. the rounded one 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 file.

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 mark smith featureless anas 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. in which he began writing about clouds struggle and the self emancipation of the proletariat. in 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 what they 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 as more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps into two great classes directly facing each other. you. know marx said you know marx is amazingly relevant we've never had so many people in poverty risk of poverty so many homeless and refugees and extreme wealth is exploding to an explosion if you'd like us from today's working class includes white collar workers and salaried employees and. when jobs are at risk mark says

ideas often come into play for example when his took up the fight against the plans of parent company general electric to slash jobs the friends coming this party supposing they fight. for example to lose his job i'm here to assure you of the full and complete support of the communist party i think 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 you here and in the entire country you don't do we'll continue forward together console so let's see. let's see she. i believe the demonstration we've witnessed here with some 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 have globalization 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 so 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. the good news for. 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 taint 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. even the renaming of can not says karl marx on may tenth one thousand fifty three was an important acknowledgment of the revolutionary tradition in the city and the contribution made by its working class store workers and present state. professor left karbala has already created many statues of the greatest sons of our people in time and again he has sought to fulfill lennon's legacy to immortalize the creator of revolutionary. ministerial by drawing upon the art of monumental propaganda station purely because while working on his designs carol read the works of marx he seeks to express the content of revolutionary marxist thought in the

visual form this was the irrepressible power of the passion of the nature of the revolutionary and the scientist. of this. this is karl marx memorial designed by professor levy of him of each parable will bear witness to the shared struggle of the working class and laborers of the german democratic republic and the soviet union even that in the ozone from comix might it seems he's. going to the institution to be to motionless applause of two hundred fifty thousand residents and guests come around every chanukah 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 class those incidents he wrote about socialism but i don't know why chemists was renamed stott he wasn't a bad or evil man can be the image. which i think i don't quite know what he did something to do with communism when the flaws are hard but if his interest i personally agree with him that company should belong not only to the bosses it's of the workers as well. or much of states. actually quantify marks on these germany marks his writings were readily available of course the series 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. marx i'm defunct when 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 if you say. for those of. zero i believe mark's very aptly predicted this concentration of capital we see today even the fact that capitalism is not simply a market economy but also contains a trend toward consolidation the formation of ever larger corporations 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 socially. in eighteen 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. 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 at a communist. proletarians have nothing to lose but their change they have a world to win 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 which naturally of course we invoked marx when we told ourselves that intellectuals were merely a superstructure from which the revolution couldn't emanate it was a 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. and 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 to be done and train it. 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 for mention . what diseases 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. and spring. good what a giant it's huge. just like let's go to the other side. up 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. that's why i know that we agreed 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 pression citizenship and become stateless. mox and his family went into exile in london. at the time london harbored refugees from all over the world box and his family lived in abject poverty. three of the boxes six children died from illness time and again and this came to their. with help from an inheritance the mox family could move to a middle class apartment max then spent most of his time in the british museum's reading room where he worked on his most important manuscript. the first volume and he had an eight hundred sixty seven copy time capital it could take 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 because the culture i don't think is developed you know as much about comics as we should i think there's a little plaque on the house that there is here but i don't believe he wasn't british though to receive as he might might be something better. than he's clearly very much a political philosophy that aspects of which are still subscribe to people like jimmy called and that sort of thing in this country. clearly it's opposed to capitalism and here we are right in the center of capitalism and you up 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 say they're 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 a few more votes and you can get

a better house bigger house better life maybe also london but it's going to cost a lot of hours of commute so yeah. when i wrote my book city boy. which is a massive warning about not to do what i did it become a banker every single email i've got many thousands of emails are from people some from germany young men saying my ritual book could you get me a job in a bank please they think who cares if you're cheating society if you're earning that kind of money. i don't think what happened in banking as irrational with the financial crisis those guys who invented these phones 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 close you will automatically have solidarity with everyone else and you will soon then realize that these capitalists are explosion 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 divide people so grace religion you know other aspects of your football team which city you're in but your country i call

really see anything that is going to replace capitalism any time soon and we're all stuck with it. today many native londoners canary longer afford to live in their own city. but london is still considered one of the witness of neo liberalism and 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 a great deal of pain and poverty and despondency that we have never exceed experienced in the past. the global power of the patriot has increased it is not trying the problem it is for the west. of the jobs that migrate it left behind

a part of. europe that has become steeped in despondency and uncertainty in joblessness in lack of prospects. it's a discussion of issues but that was always a problem with competence and it generates similar things lehman's wealth and new forms of of the provision. growing up in greece during a dictatorship which banned marx gave me a great incentive to find out about this because you know this with young people you say to them. that there's no 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 they cannot mix fear is completely

hierarchical and feudal. box's view was that you cannot have democracy with the split whenever and technological innovation creates a conscious state there's a tendency of the owners of use of commerce you're going to use it you know to the multiple lives power over the rest of us and to deny us the benefits of the knowledge it happened in the second investor permission it's happening a lot more now with google facebook and the efficient engines internet based technologies it is crucial. instead of losing. these fantastical patrik through one of the humanity find ways of democratizing this the tools that are so effective we produce jointly. must be avoided a leave it's not for what we are experiencing today as a transformation in the conditions of production which are blurring the boundaries between production and ordinary everyday activities 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. what we call quantity meaning they'll just print money. interest rates down to this they'll adapt to some of the taxes whatever's necessary to maintain the system. in eight hundred eighty one comma his wife jenny died of cancer. mark struggled to cope with the last two years later he died in his

armchair in east 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 muggs 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 i didn't blow the whole loaf marks the end of his life marx was convinced the kind of functional democracy something akin to what we now call a social market economy would sound out of cooperate as a basis would eventually emerge surely an entirely peaceful means which team could .

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