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Friendship and Historical Materialism in Raoul Peck's The Young Karl Marx

24 Sep 2019

The Young Karl Marx by Raoul Peck (director)

The essay looks at the film's portrait of the young Marx, from his criticism of punishing poor peasants for gathering wood to his censorship for challenging power, and at its treatment of friendship and historical materialism.