Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's theories. In Western Europe, the student movement of 1968 and the Eurocommunists were inspired. And in recent times, the thinker has experienced a renaissance.
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 Hansi JochmannNarrator (voice) | Narrator (voice) |
 Wiebke FrostNarrator (voice) | Narrator (voice) |
| JJan SingleNarrator (voice) | Narrator (voice) |
 Marco WittorfNarrator (voice) | Narrator (voice) |
 Werner RätzSelf | Self |
| AAndreas LudwigSelf | Self |
 Christina MorinaSelf | Self |
 Stephen SmithSelf | Self |
 Vladimir LeninSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Mathias GreffrathSelf | Self |
 Zhang ShuangliSelf | Self |
| ZZhong JunSelf | Self |
 Wu WeishanSelf | Self |
 Pierre LaurentSelf | Self |
 Georges MarchaisSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Enrico BerlinguerSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Willi StophSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
| LLev KerbelSelf | Self |
 Erich HoneckerSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Sahra WagenknechtSelf | Self |
 Fidel CastroSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Peter SchneiderSelf | Self |
 Geraint AndersonSelf | Self |
 Yánis VaroufákisSelf | Self |