When writing The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx thought he was providing a road to utopia, but everywhere his ideas were tried, they resulted in catastrophe and mass murder. In this video, Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, illuminates the life of the mild-mannered 19th Century German whose ideas led to the rise of some of the most brutal dictators in world history
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I remember seeing his home in Trier, Germany. It’s a beautiful small city on the Moselle River, which was also a Roman outpost and has some old Roman buildings. And I;m thinking the Germans gave us both the Nazis and the Communists.
But to balance it I guess Bach and Beethoven.