{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/66fb968b13b87f41275ee4bd/679339aa6692a03090c84155?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Major Thinkers - Karl Marx - Ep. 2","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/66fb968b13b87f41275ee4bd/1737701065228-cd444b9b-e3cb-476a-9e39-4409cc6a41ed.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Karl Marx is one of the most influential thinkers in the history of the world. This lecture reviews his background and some of the events that formed his thinking as a means of putting his core ideas into a historical frame. A hopefully much more listenable version of this early recording.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Economic-Philosophic-Manuscripts-1844.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Marx 1847</a>&nbsp;A link to the Economic and Philosophical manuscripts of 1847 which is perhaps the best place to get an introductory perspective on Marx’s thinking.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/wescecil\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sign-up for&nbsp;Wes’s PATREON</a>&nbsp;to get your questions answered by Wes!</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month.&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Wes Cecil"}