Marx in 90 minutes (by Paul Strathern)

Paul Strathern - Marx in 90 minutes


wiki: Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818–March 14, 1883) was a German[1] philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism.



Marx summarized his approach to history and politics in the opening line of the first
chapter of The Communist Manifesto (1848): “The history of all hitherto existing society
is the history of class struggles.” Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic
systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction.[2] Just as
capitalism replaced feudalism, socialism will in its turn replace capitalism and lead
to a stateless, classless society which will emerge after a transitional period, the
"dictatorship of the proletariat".