Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury! If you haven’t listened to last Friday’s episode go check it out, it’s a prelude to this episode. Today we are going to discuss the founder of Communism – Karl Marx, along with his ideas.   1848 – Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, brought the philosophy of Communism to the masses. We’ll start with a brief outline of his life. Whilst we could go on for a while about him, I’m more interested in looking at his ideas, which are more important. We will talk more about he and Engels’ character, too, to form a good understanding about their ideologies.   Why is this important to cover? The Communist Manifesto is one of the most read books – still today. Research conducted by the Open Syllabus Project - 15 years of over 1m course curricula in Colleges and Universities The Communist Manifesto is number 3 in most assigned, 2nd in History, Number 1 in Sociology The top 10 Economics books are written by New Keynesian Economics Assumes rationality and economic efficiencies – Wants t