The Young Karl Marx + Lezing René Gabriëls
Fresh off the success of his documentary I Am Not Your Negro, Haitian-born director Raoul Peck tackles the early days of the friendship between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as they struggle to complete the Communist Manifesto.
At the age of 26, Karl Marx embarks with his wife Jenny on the road to exile. In Paris in 1844 they meet young Friedrich Engels, son of a factory owner, who’s studied the sordid beginnings of the English proletariat. Engels, somewhat of a dandy, brings Karl Marx the missing piece to the puzzle that composes his new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and police raids, riots and political upheavals, they will preside over the birth of the labour movement, which until then had been mostly makeshift and unorganized. This will grow into the most complete theoretical and political transformation of the world since the Renaissance – driven, against all expectations, by two brilliant, insolent and sharp-witted young men from good families.
N.B: This screening is preceded by a lecture by philosopher René Gabriëls (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University).
Timetable:
2pm Lecture René Gabriëls
2.45pm The Young Karl Marx
3.15pm Break
3.45pm The Young Karl Marx (continued)
4.45pm End