Transcript: How 'Marx's General' Helped Lead The Revolution

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GUY RAZ
NPR Weekend All Things Considered
08-30-2009
How 'Marx's General' Helped Lead The Revolution

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A few weeks after the financial meltdown began last fall, a book started creeping up the bestseller lists. The book was Karl Marx's anti- capitalist opus, "Das Kapital." And yet while Karl Marx is widely considered one of the most influential political philosophers in history, his close collaborator, Friedrich Engels, is often overlooked.

Well, historian Tristram Hunt is hoping to put an end to the slight. His new biography of Engels is called "Marx's General." And ...

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