Why Karl Marx Was Right

Karl Marx is one of the most argued about thinkers of the modern world — praised as a prophet, dismissed as a crank, and often reduced to slogans. But the real story is far more interesting. Marx wasn’t trying to predict a revolution; he was trying to understand the world he saw around him. In this video, we explore: • the industrial world Marx was born into • why he believed capitalism was revolutionary rather than static • how mechanisation reshaped work, class, and daily life • why the middle class were more vulnerable than they realised • the modern echoes of Marx’s predictions in today’s economy Seen through the lens of his time, Marx’s ideas become less about ideology and more about a clear eyed attempt to describe a world being transformed at speed. If you’d like to explore the scholarship behind this video, these books offer a clear and thoughtful path into Marx’s world and the debates around him: Jonathan Sperber – Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life (London: W.W. Norton, 2013) Gareth Stedman Jones – Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (London: Allen Lane, 2016) David Harvey – A Companion to Marx’s Capital (London: Verso, 2010) Eric Hobsbawm – How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism (London: Little, Brown, 2011) Terrell Carver – Marx (Oxford: Polity Press, 2012) Shlomo Avineri – The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968) For updates on new courses, projects, and what I’m working on, sign up here: https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/2... Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 04:46 The Modern Echoes 09:04 Was Marx Wrong-Or Just Early?