Never before or since has a single philosopher produced such a tremendous effect as Karl Marx.
Since 2007 he has also been active as a teacher and trainer of young TV journalists in Munich, holding the post of Academic Director at the Media Academy, an institute of higher education that offers film and TV courses at its base directly on the site of the major European film production company Bavaria Film..
His many years of experience as a journalist mean that he is able to present the complex ideas of the Great philosophers in a way that is both engaging and very clear.
He has also authored numerous books in the field of philosophy.
His news reports have won several prizes and awards.
As a foreign correspondent, reporter and newsroom coordinator for the German TV Station ProSieben he has produced films on every continent.
Walther Ziegler is academically trained in the fields of philosophy, history and political science.
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The book forms part of the popular series "Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes".
In the second part of the book, entitled "Of what use is Marx\'s discovery to us today?", Marx\'s insights are applied to the present situation.
The book "Marx in 60 Minutes" explains in clear and perspicuous terms, using some seventy key quotations from Marx\'s works, such topics as the materialist philosophy of history, the doctrine of "base and superstructure", Marx\'s critique of religion, and the analyses developed in Capital of "surplus value", capital accumulation, and the immiseration of the workers.
There is no question but that Marx still has a lot to say to us.
His acute critique of capitalism is, then, more relevant today than ever.
Certain of Marx\'s predictions, such as the forming of powerful economic monopolies and the ever-growing gulf between rich and poor, have already come true.
It has become ever clearer that capitalism does indeed display the structural flaws that Marx described in his main work, "Capital".
But the global economic and financial crises of recent decades have profoundly shaken belief in the power of the market to regulate itself.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain many claimed that Marx had been entirely in error and that the sole viable economic system is really capitalism after all.
But some hundred years after Marx\'s death the communist world that he had inspired fell apart.
Marxist revolutions occurred in countries as different as Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua and Mozambique as well as many others, until at one point almost a third of humanity were living under communism.
Marxism spread all around the globe.
Allegiance to his ideas was proclaimed by revolutionaries, parties, governments and states.
His Great vision of a society without private property was heeded worldwide and had huge historical effects.
Never before or since has a single philosopher produced such a tremendous effect as Karl Marx
