Was Karl Marx Right? The Economist
Completion requirements
We used this short (3'22"), more argumentative video assessing the value of Marx's work as further practice at listening for gist (anticipating content and viewpoint) and to identify further authentic examples of the language of causality which it uses, e.g. his writings have generated fierce debate; the realisation of a stateless society; the utopian ideal of a fair and equal society failed to materialise; communism tyrannised its subjects; Marx predicted that capitalism would lead to globalisation, however, he underestimated the capacity of capitalism to make everybody richer by making products much cheaper; welfare states that redistributed wealth through taxation
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