World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx

Sven-Eric Liedman-author of a major new Marx biography, “A World to Win:The Life and Works of Karl Marx”-in conversation with Adam Tooze and Clara Mattei.
Filmed at Verso Books in Brooklyn, on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Marx, May 5, 2018.
Sven-Eric Liedman, Professor Emeritus of the History of Ideas at the University of Gothenburg, has been reading and writing about Karl Marx for over fifty years. He is the author of “A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx”: www.versobooks.com/products/4...
Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute. He is currently at work on a history of the global financial crisis 2008-2018, which will appear in time for the anniversary in September 2018. He has written and reviewed for the Financial Times, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Nation, and others.
Clara Mattei is Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research.

[@johnmaisonneuve9057]

Always super happy to hear (see) these interviews from distinguished Marxist scholars. This is what we need, more scholarship of the highest level. Marx is more needed it seems ever.

[@rikosririkos5141]

Forgive me uncle Karl , but whenever i see or hear this beautiful and passionate companera , my heart beats like a drum . Avanti companeros in Italy , companeras are holding the flags in the front line !!! Viva a rivoluzione .

[@stavroskarageorgis4804]

Critique of philistinism applies much more to other intellectuals, especially those of haute- and rentier-bourgeois origin than to regular people and workers.

[@pshay1214]

A great work of scholarship and the best biography of Marx.

[@MrDXRamirez]

I think what is missing in this panel is a discussion of the double function of the working class in a commodity producing society.

[@momolee5054]

I have heard a rumor that Marx never actually experienced the life of a worker. I was told that he never worked. Is that true?

[@johnburns4017]

Mark never understood land and the economic rent absorbed into the land. And how it is being apprropriated. Henry George did, who Marx made derogatory comments about after reading his book, _Progress and Poverty._