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.
                                    Hansi Jochmann
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                                    Wiebke Frost
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                                    Marco Wittorf
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                                    Werner Rätz
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                                    Christina Morina
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                                    Vladimir Lenin
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                                    Mathias Greffrath
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                                    Zhang Shuangli
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                                    Wu Weishan
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                                    Pierre Laurent
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                                    Georges Marchais
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                                    Enrico Berlinguer
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                                    Willi Stoph
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                                    Erich Honecker
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                                    Sahra Wagenknecht
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                                    Fidel Castro
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                                    Peter Schneider
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                                    Geraint Anderson
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                                    Yánis Varoufákis
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