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The Marxes

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A man who looms as large as Karl Marx needed multiple Significant Others (although when it came to wives, he only had one). 

Starring Ted Danson as Karl Marx, Maddie Ogden as Jenny von Westphalen, and Patton Oswalt as Friedrich Engels.

Also featuring Katie Sharer and Matt O’Brien.

 

Source List:

Love and Captial: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel, ©2011, Hachette Book Group

Engels by Terrell Carver, ©2011, Oxford University Press

Revolutions Podcast, Season 10

Reason.org, Don’t Blame Karl Marx for ‘Cultural Marxism’

The Washington Post, “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution,” by Mary Gabriel

National Library of Medicine, Friedrich Engels: Businessman and Revolutionary

Britannica, Young Hegelians

CCSNA.org, Duke of Argyll

Marxist.org, Yearning: A Romance, The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl Marx 1852

History.com, Paris Commune of 1871


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