Friday - The Michael Slate Show: "The Young Karl Marx," Interview with Filmmaker Raoul Peck

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This Week:   "The Young Karl Marx," Interview with the Filmmaker Raoul Peck We'll talk with Raoul Peck, director and co-writer of "The Young Karl Marx," a new feature film that opens this week in the US. The film brings to life a key five-year period in the life of Karl Marx and his great collaborator Freidrich Engels, as they struggle to bring a new revolutionary science into being. In 1843, At the age of 26, Karl Marx (August Diehl), with his wife Jenny Marx (Vicky Krieps) is expelled from Cologne by Prussian police. In Paris, they meet young Friedrich Engels (Stefan Konarske), son of a factory owner and author of a brilliant study of the English proletariat. Together, between censorship and police raids, Marx and Engels struggle to bring forward the most scientific method for understanding the world -- and changing it. The film ends as the young revolutionaries finish work on the Communist Manifesto, in early 1848, which is destined to be a year of upheaval and revolution throughout Europe. At the beginning of the film, there is no Marxism. By the end, it has become a dynamic force for bringing forward a new world.   Raoul Peck is an internationally-acclaimed writer and director born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His earlier films include Lumumba (2000), and I Am Not Your Negro (2016), a documentary about writer James Baldwin. We also recommend:   Get into Bob Avakian, the Karl Marx of this era:  at revcom.us Critical answers for urgent times... And a doorway to a better world Come to one of the screenings of the film: At UCLA: Thursday March 1- Math Sciences 5233 @ 3pm Friday March 2 - Young Research Library Study Room G01 @ 1pm Tuesday March 6 - Haines Hall 279 @ 3pm Also, the Church in Ocean Park invites you to a screening Saturday March 3 from 6-8:30 PM235 Hill St., Santa Monica OR Click HERE to watch his filmed talk THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America, A Better World IS Possible.