For instance, there is a new film from director Raoul Peck, The Young Karl Marx, which covers the time period 20 years before Capital, and well before Marx settled in London, where he lived until he end of his life.

But interest in Marx remains high, anniversary or not. In addition, next year is the bicentenary of Marx’s birth, so there is sure to be more activity around the man, his work and his legacy. You can read an excerpt via the publisher, Oxford University Press and it has recently been reviewed by the Financial Times and the LSE Review of Books, from the London School of Economics and Political Science. The anniversary has also been marked by a new book, Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason by longtime Marx scholar David Harvey, a professor at the CUNY/City University of New York Graduate Center. To demonstrate that Marx’s influence goes well beyond economics and politics, on September 14th Artworld published “On the 150th Anniversary of ‘Das Kapital,’ Here Are 5 Works Inspired by Marx’s Seminal Text.” It depicts the influence on various works of dance, illustration, sculpture and other artistic expressions.

Marx’s long history of using the library for reading, research and writing is detailed in the recent British Library European studies blog post by Izzy Gibbin, “ 150 Years of Capital.“ In Germany, the land of Marx’s birth, the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) recently published “ Karl Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’ still fascinates after 150 years,” a Q&A with author/journalist Bernd Ziesemer.

What I find particularly interesting is that it was largely written in the reading room of the British Library (at the time located at the British Museum). September 14 marked the 150th anniversary of the original, German-language publication of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, later published in English-language editions (in multiple volumes) as Capital.

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