Karl Marx staging a comeback in Europe
Who’s benefiting from the current economic meltdown?
Karl Marx! Call him the “comeback kid” of the current economic crisis.
His works are selling in record numbers across Germany; publishers cannot reissue his works especially (Das Kapital) fast enough to keep up with the demand, as German universities have made him a prime topic of study in an attempt to understand the crisis affecting capitalist economies.
As this video explains, German scholars are quick to argue that this surge of interest in Karl Marx and Marxist theory does not signal a resurgence of Marxism, but Germany’s left-wing, socialist parties disagree and hope to “capitalize” on the situation in the next federal elections.
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Karl Marx! Call him the “comeback kid” of the current economic crisis.
His works are selling in record numbers across Germany; publishers cannot reissue his works especially (Das Kapital) fast enough to keep up with the demand, as German universities have made him a prime topic of study in an attempt to understand the crisis affecting capitalist economies.
As this video explains, German scholars are quick to argue that this surge of interest in Karl Marx and Marxist theory does not signal a resurgence of Marxism, but Germany’s left-wing, socialist parties disagree and hope to “capitalize” on the situation in the next federal elections.