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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

And he says, "The workingmen knew, "the workingmen knew that when slavery was proposed "as...

And he says, "The workingmen knew, "the workingmen knew that when slavery was proposed "as the solution to capital and labor, "they knew that all of their hard-earned historical gains were in jeopardy." So, why Marx was supportive of the Republicans, because Marx knew that the attack of bourgeois society from the right was also an attack on any possibility of a workers' revolution

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And he says, "The workingmen knew,
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"the workingmen knew that when slavery was proposed
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"as the solution to capital and labor,
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"they knew that all of their hard-earned historical gains
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were in jeopardy."
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So, why Marx was supportive of the Republicans,
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because Marx knew
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that the attack of bourgeois society from the right
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was also an attack on any possibility
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of a workers' revolution.
Duration
38 seconds
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24
Timestamp in Movie
02:38:22
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
Because the workers' revolution, insofar as Marx was concerned, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
Because the workers' revolution, insofar as Marx was...
So in this sense, what we have - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
So in this sense, what we have
If one end is Karl Marx - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
If one end is Karl Marx
Lincoln says, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:13
Lincoln says,
The definition of that free society, they disagree on. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
The definition of that free society, they disagree on.
Those two groups of people, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:18
Those two groups of people,
It's been good for him. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
It's been good for him.
Let's hear it, New York! - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Let's hear it, New York!
Genet took these very marginalized people, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:15
Genet took these very marginalized people,
The Thief's Journal is my favorite book of Genet, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
The Thief's Journal is my favorite book of Genet,
I love it because he takes, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
I love it because he takes,
It's a memoir, yet it's completely true - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
It's a memoir, yet it's completely true
Because that's the kind of guy Genet was. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Because that's the kind of guy Genet was.
But when I say false, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
But when I say false,
And in this way it's close to what Anselm Kiefer says. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
And in this way it's close to what Anselm Kiefer says.
Yes, and I think that, you know, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
Yes, and I think that, you know,
Whose memoirs do you like?" - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Whose memoirs do you like?"
Really strange that I should be writing nonfiction, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
Really strange that I should be writing nonfiction,
But, um... but that's the kind of, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
But, um... but that's the kind of,
I didn't want to just sit and write an autobiography. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
I didn't want to just sit and write an autobiography.