Karl Marx Life and Philosophy

Hallmark's born 1818 live till 1883 whatever says in your program is always right 1883 what's important to note like Nietzsche factoid with all the philosophers who dealt the particularly Nietzsche and Marx they were born into the Europe that followed Napoleon now and I mentioned before that Napoleon did is basically blow Europe up the forces were at work changing the political and social structure of Europe Napoleon sort of accelerated those and sort of just blew up the old system he didn't make anything new the people who made something new were three important I mean a lot more than three people of course but three people in particular which were a Talleyrand medtronic and Castle raw we're all foreign ministers of one sort or another and they negotiated a true a european-wide treaty that held depending on how you want to score for you between 75 and 105 years of peace in main sections of Europe which was really historically an astonishing achievement it's one of the great achievements in foreign policy because they negotiated a treaty that held as far as large-scale warfare goes nearly a hundred years of peace after a couple of hundred years where they hadn't had ten years of peace um so but what the one way they did this is they created a whole series of interlocking weak governments and so while there was continent-wide relative peace in any given region there was political instability you had all of these forces that we're working one against the other to try and become more conservative more liberal to to bring back the monarchy no no let's bring back a radical republican government no no let's do some sort of communal system early socialist movements and so you have the strange combination of peace in a military sense and a fair degree of stability on a large scale but if you were in what became Germany if you were in what is France today if you were in Italy even if you were in England it was a time of very great political instability a really surprising amount of political Fermin and this is what Marx grows up in he grows up in a period of remarkable social mobility intellectual change in flux and and political question part of what's driving this is what he ended up being a specialist and of course ...