The Young Karl Marx

2018 • 118 minutes

About this movie

At the age of 26, Karl Marx embarks with his wife Jenny on the road to exile. In Paris in 1844 they meet young Friedrich Engels, son of a factory owner, who’s studied the sordid beginnings of the English proletariat. Engels, somewhat of a dandy, brings Karl Marx the missing piece to the puzzle that composes his new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and police raids, riots and political upheavals, they will preside over the birth of the labor movement, which until then had been mostly makeshift and unorganized. This will grow into the most complete theoretical and political transformation of the world since the Renaissance – driven, against all expectations, by two brilliant, insolent and sharp-witted young men from good families.

Ratings and reviews

Can't wait for Karl Marx the middle years where 110 million died. I love all the lefties defending this P.O.S. propaganda movie. Imagine if someone made a movie that portrayed Hitler as a some great thinker with grand, revoloutionary ideas. I have a suggestion for all the post modern, progressive, social justice warriors; skip this movie and read a history book.

It's nice seeing capitalist snowflakes get all riled up because of a movie. Capitalism has killed and IS KILLING millions every year around the world. Don't hear any snowflake capitalists talking about that.

Great movie. Karl Marx was an extraordinary and brilliant philosopher whose ideas have brought us 40 hour work weeks, universal healthcare, unions and many other benefits that may have gone ignored if it weren’t for him.