Pandora's Box - Thoughts on "Young Marx"
The young Marx opened Pandora's box and released a ghost wandering across the European continent.
Under the wandering ghost, capitalism is bound to die? In black and white, Marx did write it like this. But when Weitling's supporters were still fantasizing about the establishment of a utopian world where "brothers in the four seas", Marx did not support it either.
In my opinion, this is his rationality - in his opinion, there is no programmatic document, no planning for the social structure and no conception of social division of labor, empty talk against capitalists and the establishment of a world of the just are nothing more than a panacea. Sitting among the frenzied and angry groups of workers, Marx was always thinking calmly and rationally.
Marx understood that this unequal world full of exploitation and oppression can only be changed by continuously mobilizing the labor movement, and mobilizing the labor movement requires not only intellectuals to go deep into the workers to publicize their ideas, but also to master the objective laws of social and historical movements.
In this way, Marx is almost like a saint, far ahead of his time; and what the film is trying to tell us is not so. The film portrays a flesh-and-blood Marx, a Marx who has the same emotions as mortals, and an embarrassed Marx who is tired of life. His worldly life is closely tied to his intellectual achievements, witnessing his transition from a young Hegelian, to a humanist, and eventually a communist.
While watching the movie, the following two images are still fresh in my memory.
First, before the publication of the Communist Manifesto in 1848, the labor squeeze of the factory made the working class toil day and night, and the individual person was alienated into a numb and aching turnbuckle in front of a noisy machine.
Also, when Marx, Engels, Jenny, and Mary sat together in a dim and damp room, reading aloud the sentences that were given souls from their hands, I felt a firm will and a passion that is unique to young people. In the end, the picture fell into darkness, and the voice of the words still lingered in my ears.
Closing my eyes, the two scenes merged in my memory. I seem to see that ghost still hovering over the heads of human beings, as if they are always asking: Where will human beings go in the future? When will the world of freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity come?
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