Polls registering opinions about Karl Marx, displayed at the entrance to the exhibition, attest to the high level of interest. “And that brings Marx, who was the first to try to figure out the mechanisms and interconnections of capitalism, back to the forefront as a social. But against the backdrop of the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2008, increasing social inequalities and the enormous concentration of wealth, “there is a lively debate about Marx’s theories in the public sphere, but also in the social sciences, in philosophy and in the cultural sphere.”įor many today, Kritter said, the question was whether capitalism was capable of finding answers to these pressing social problems. “Twenty years ago, if someone had said that the German Historical Museum would soon be showing an exhibition entitled Karl Marx and Capitalism, it would probably have provoked incredulous astonishment,” explained curator Sabine Kritter at the exhibition’s opening.Īfter the “failure of real socialism” (the misleading term applied to the former Stalinist East Germany, the German Democratic Republic), Marxism and Marx himself were seemingly finished and the word “capitalism” had been discredited as a combative polemical term, Kritter asserted. It opened in early February and runs through August 21. So thanks, Enlight Software.The German Historical Museum (Deutsches Historisches Museum, DHM) in central Berlin is currently home to a remarkable exhibition, Karl Marx and Capitalism. Regarding games, Capitalism Lab is one of them (and the FIFA-Series for my XBox ). Usually I don’t feel grateful when it comes to products, but there are a few exceptions. It never gets boring, after you finished it you won’t want to change for another game, you simply start over again, trying to avoid mistakes you made before, invent other products or strategies. I’ve been playing Capitalism Lab during its beta phase for countless hours. So if anyone is looking for a game that provides more than just two hours of scripted gameplay, even though it may be a call of duty, you should give this one a try. However, CapLab is a masterpiece, a bit like “The Lemmings”: pretty easy to learn, very hard to handle. I’ve been playing business sims since I started playing computer games almost 20 years and whilst back then there was a rich variety of good games the genre almost dried out in the past years. It seemed that the times of good business simulations was over – and then Capitalism Lab came along the way.

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