You enjoy your weekend. You have rights at work. Your kids go to school instead of a factory floor. None of that was inevitable. All of it was fought for. And the intellectual ammunition behind almost every one of those fights traces back to one difficult, brilliant, frequently broke German philosopher — Karl Marx.

This episode is not about gulags. It is not about the Cold War. It is about the idea. Where it came from, why it spread to every corner of the planet, and why you — whether you love Marx or loathe him — are living inside his world right now. From the factories of Manchester to the cobalt mines of the Congo, from Victorian Britain to modern Vietnam, this is the story of the most successful ideology in human history.

You have already benefited from it.

Whether you know it or not.

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