Conférence de Jonathan Sperber : Karl Marx between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, IHA Paris, le 28/05/2018

On the two hundredth anniversary of his birth, Karl Marx remains, in so many different ways, a controversial figure. One issue, about which there has been heated debate, is the relationship between the circumstances of the first half of the nineteenth century, which shaped Marx’s ideas, and the contemporary validity of those ideas. Some commentators see the fundamental circumstances of a capitalist economy and society, today and two hundred years ago, as fundamentally similar, so that Marx’s ..