Jakobiner-Klub - Friedrich Engels – Arbeit an der Theorie

In the organizer's words:

Input Ingar Solty
Discussion partner Bafta Sarbo
Moderated by Ole Nymoen

Why should we still read Friedrich Engels today? For some, Karl Marx's lifelong companion seems to be little more than Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's detective novels, Sancho Panza to Don Quixote in Cervantes' famous novel or Obelix to Asterix in the French comics. Is the theorist of the labor movement really nothing more than a sidekick in the history of socialism? No more than someone who helps the real hero out of a jam here and there, especially financially, or - as portrayed in Raoul Peck's successful film "The Young Karl Marx" - goes out drinking with him until, shortly before the drunken vomiting, he comes up with the idea for the eleventh Feuerbach thesis: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently, it is important to changeit." Yes, Friedrich Engels is more than that. The Marxist movement of thought would not exist without the son of an industrialist. That is the point.

In cooperation with Jacobin. Supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Price information:

Brecht House Admission: € 6 / reduced: € 4