S02E01: Traitor | Play for Today

S02E01: Traitor | Play for Today

Core Political Ideas | BBC One | 1971 | 58'47''

Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the...

Das Kapital | Genius of the Modern World

Das Kapital | Genius of the Modern World

Core Political Ideas | BBC Four | 2016 | 3'45''

Bettany and an economic journalist use the example of an 1860s 9-year-old boy who worked a 15-hour shift every day as the benchmark ...

Spread Of The Communist Ideology | Genius of the Modern World

Spread Of The Communist Ideology | Genius of the Modern World

Core Political Ideas | BBC Four | 2016 | 3'58''

The Bolshevik Revolution kickstarted the shift towards communism, but Russia didn't have the predicted variable...

Later Life | Genius of the Modern World

Later Life | Genius of the Modern World

Core Political Ideas | BBC Four | 2016 | 4'14''

In 1849, Marx went to London and lived in the slums of Soho with his wife and four children, where he was spied on by Prussian spies.

The Communist Manifesto | Genius of the Modern World

The Communist Manifesto | Genius of the Modern World

Core Political Ideas | BBC Four | 2016 | 2'55''

In 1847, poor crop growth leading to famine brought political unrest which inspired the commissioning of Marx and Engels...

Economic Organisations | Genius of the Modern World

Economic Organisations | Genius of the Modern World

Core Political Ideas | BBC Four | 2016 | 1'54''

From slavery to the industrial revolution, Marx and Engels realise that its economic organisations that drive the change ...

Engels | Genius of the Modern World

Engels | Genius of the Modern World

Core Political Ideas | BBC Four | 2016 | 1'39''

Engels was also from a bourgeois Prussian family and shared similar views on capitalism.

Capitalism | Genius of the Modern World

Capitalism | Genius of the Modern World

Core Political Ideas | BBC Four | 2016 | 2'07''

The woe of society according to Marx was western life was based on capitalism and that while our ''species essence'' is productive, i...

Young Hegelians | Genius of the Modern World

Young Hegelians | Genius of the Modern World

Core Political Ideas | BBC Four | 2016 | 2'47''

Marx joined a group of young debaters and philosophers who endlessly discussed the theories of the recently deceased George Hege...

Early Life | Genius of the Modern World

Early Life | Genius of the Modern World

Core Political Ideas | BBC Four | 2016 | 2'36''

Bettany Hughes looks at the early bourgeois life of Karl Marx in Prussia.

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