Film
Marx Now: Marx for Beginners

Commemorating Karl Marx's 200th Birthday

Wed, 05/02/2018 -
Thu, 05/10/2018
Goethe-Institut Chicago

The short film will be screened with all other Marx-related films as pre-film on May 2nd, 8th, 9th, and 10th.

Director: Bob Godfrey, color, 7 min., 1978

How many people have actually read the work of Karl Marx? Based on the book by the Mexican cartoonist Rius, Marx for Beginners is a hilarious animated film that highlights Marx's most influential ideas, and places them into the context of western civilization by introducing Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, and Descartes. All in seven minutes!
High school and college audiences will find the film an amusing introduction and discussion starter on Marx's work, while non-academic audiences of all ages will be entertained by the lively and irreverent treatment of one of the world's most important thinkers.