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Video, : K is for Karl: Communism (Episode 2)

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In the second episode of “K is for Karl”, Paul Mason visits the places and influences around London which contributed to Marx’s writing of the Communist Manifesto. “The year is 1847. Then, as now, London was the financial capital of the world. Here, Karl Marx set out to write a document that still has the power to inspire people and terrify the elite… the Communist Manifesto.”

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