Karl Marx — The Thinker Who Inspired Revolutions
Hi there, and welcome to 8 Minute Lives. On a grey March afternoon in 1883, a small group gathered in Highgate Cemetery in London to bury a stateless, penniless old man on March 17, 1883. About eleven people came. One of them, a factory owner's son named Friedrich Engels, gave a short speech over the grave. He predicted that the man's name would endure through the ages. It sounded like the kind of thing you say at funerals. But within a few decades, roughly a third of humanity would live under governments claiming that man as their founding prophet. His face would hang in city squares from…
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