Producer: May 2018: Karl Marx, one of the most proliphic German philosophers and thinkers, was born exactly 200 years ago this day in Trier. With the “Capital” and the “Communist Manifesto” he provided the theoretical basis for the Soviet Union and also for the GDR. These regimes have failed, but the financial crisis and the unleashed capitalism of our time has made his theories topical again. News item for CGTN with correspondent Guy Henderson in Berlin.