<p>Raoul Peck, the director of the new film, <em>The Young Karl Marx</em>, acclaimed the 19th-century radical leftist on Sunday’s <em>All Things Considered</em> on NPR: “Today, his [Marx’s] analyses are even more urgent and necessary than before.” Anchor Sarah McCammon pointed out, “But hasn’t this been tried before many times? I mean, Marx’s ideas pervaded, for instance, the Soviet Union.” Peck denied this historic reality: “It did not influence the Soviet Union. Marx and Engels would have probably been the first one to be shot….this incredible monster that was fabricated after the Russian Revolution has nothing to do with their ideas.”</p>