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Karl Marx — voted the greatest philosopher in history by In Our Time listeners. The panel examines Marx's ideas about class, capitalism, alienation, and historical materialism, and assesses their relevance two decades after the fall of Soviet communism.
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Marx's diagnosis of capitalism's problems was more accurate than his prescription for solving them
The panel argues that Marx's analysis of exploitation, alienation, and boom-bust cycles remains powerful, even though his proposed solution (communist revolution) produced tyranny everywhere it was tried.Was this useful?