What The Young Karl Marx has working to its advantage is that the 1840s were an exceptionally lively decade. Cold War-era accounts sometimes made it sound like Marx was a misanthropic recluse, ...

This is one of the most remarkable scenes from Raoul Peck's new film, "The Young Karl Marx." A 26-year-old Marx vomiting after a night of drinking and conversation with Engels is an insignificant ...

According to Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, the joint authors of Young Marx ... was political and Marx refused to fight. At its best the play offers a vivid portrait of Marx’s chaotic ...

From the Berlin Film Festival, a new film that focuses on Karl Marx’s early life is well made but misses an opportunity for provocation, writes Jessica Kiang. Engaging with director Raoul Peck's ...

Peck successfully ended The Young Karl Marx on the notes of Bob Dylan ... thanks to British actress Romola Garai’s vulnerable portrait of Marx and her flaws, the audience is so strongly on ...

There’s a phantom thread in The Young Karl Marx. The film’s triumphal climax shows the writing and publication of The Communist Manifesto in 1848, with Marx (August Diehl), his wife Jenny ...

COMMUNISM may be practically extinguished but the influence of Karl ... wafts in. “Young Marx” is a fitting opener for the new theatre. Set largely in Soho in 1850, it is a portrait of how ...

In this weird world of the surreal and bizarre, horror mingles with humor, and young ... portrait that looks like a dark relic of the Soviet era, five figures stand frowning in profile: Karl Marx ...

But sometimes the crank is Karl Marx ... a portrait of working-class life in 19th-century England; for philosophers, a critique of modern forms of domination. Other texts by Marx are more ...