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The exhibition shows Karl Marx and his confrontation

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with the industrial capitalism in the 19th century.

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Marx was concerned with the scientific intersection

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and analysis of the social reality of his time,

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always with the perspective of change.

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In the exhibition we show, that there is not only one Marx.

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Marx did not leave a coherent overall theoretical system behind.

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Marx' positions have changed again and again

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in the course of his life.

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He has always dealt with the precise circumstances

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of his time and his political assessment

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or also his theoretical approach have often changed,

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and therefore his work has never remained the same.

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Marx positions have remained partially contradictory.

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Especially with the question of women, for example,

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he stood up for the social rights of women workers,

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but did not see political rights as an issue

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to be advocated in the labor movement.

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During his lifetime, Marx was one of the idea generators of the workers' movement.

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In the International Workingmen's Association

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where he was involved, he wrote almost all the texts,

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all the policy statements,

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and thus also made up a large part of what was

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programmatically communicated to the outside

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by the Internationale, for example.

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But he was by no means an icon in the 19th century,

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and many of his texts, which we know today,

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were not yet published during his lifetime.

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In the 19th century,

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upheavals took place that,

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when we look at working conditions today,

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mark upheavals,

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which are in a certain way similar to upheavals today.

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But the exhibition is also about themes, that are based

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in the 19th century, which we are still dealing with today.

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It's about the question of developing new technologies all the time.

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It's about questions of natural resources, about the use of fossil fuels.

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We also show a Marx in the exhibition,

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who was extremely multifaceted,

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who dealt with an unbelievable number of topics,

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with many subjects, which, knowing Marxism-Leninism

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or the various Marxisms of the 20th century,

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one would not expect.

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In the exhibition, we're also concerned with

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proving again and again,

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how Marx himself had already provoked criticism during his lifetime.

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That starts with the question of revolution,

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where he was very much criticized.

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But it also deals with issues of anti-Semitism,

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for example, where we show a letter

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from David Levy Elkan,

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who cancels his subscription to the newspaper,

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which Marx published,

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because anti-Semitic positions were represented in it.

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These critical voices to make clear that

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Marx was not a single theorist, a lone wolf of his time,

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that's an important part.

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I was interested in making an exhibition about capitalism.

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And in doing so, I was particularly interested

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in two personalities of the 19th century.

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On one side,

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if we want to say it roughly from the right, Richard Wagner,

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and on the other side Karl Marx.

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What is important to me above all is,

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that we return to the person of the 19th century.

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This is in a way the task of a historical museum,

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as I see it,

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a performing historicization and thus also the uncovering

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of the personalities and thus of the possibility,

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to acquire their thinking anew

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and perhaps also to rethink it for the present.