BBC Four. Genius of the Modern World, Karl Marx (2016) He is honoured as one of the greatest thinkers of the modern world together with Nietzsche and Freud. Their ideas came about at a time when the whole world was changing, pre-existing economic models were crumbling, science was changing religious beliefs and people started developing new ideas about life. In the first of the three episodes, a historian Bettany Hughes tells us the life and times of a 20th-century icon whose idea rocked the world for a good part of the century, Karl Marx (1818-1883). It is interesting to note that he did not invent Communism. Communism predates his ideas. He got his inspirations from the young Hegelian movement at the University of Berlin and the French Revolution. Growing in a society controlled by the aristocratic Prussian rulers who discriminate his background as a Jew, he postulated that capitalism was a self-defeating and an exploitative system that makes everybody unhappy in the end. Th...
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