Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

Marx and Engels on Revolution

The Communist Manifesto (1848) remains the most famous revolutionary text of all. But what was the problem with politics that only a revolution could solve?  And why were the working class the only people who could solve it? David explores what Marx and Engels really had to say about capitalism, crisis and class and he asks what still resonates from that message today. Free online version of the text:<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61/pg61-images.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61/pg61-images.html</a> Recommended version to purchase: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/marx-later-political-writings?format=PB" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/marx-later-political-writings?format=PB</a>Going Deeper:<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-Brumaire.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Karl Marx, ‘The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’</a><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_The_German_Ideology.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German ideology</a><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/why-read-marx-today-9780192805058?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jonathan Wolff, Why read Marx today? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)</a><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Karl-Marx-Gareth-Stedman-Jones/dp/0713999047" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: greatness and illusion (London: Allen Lane, 2016)</a><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9jg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In Our Time on Marx</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

A new series of talks by David Runciman, in which he explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics – from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, from revolution to lock down. Plus, he talks about the crises – revolutions, wars, depressions, pandemics – that generated these new ways of political thinking. From the team that brought you Talking Politics: a history of ideas to help make sense of what’s happening today. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.