How wine turned Karl Marx into a communist

In this situation, Karl Marx, then editor at the Cologne Rheinische Zeitung, dealt with the precarious economic situation of the Mosel vintners as well as with the negotiations of the Rhineland State Parliament regarding the wood theft law. It was about the attempts of forest owners to criminalize the gathering of dead wood, which until then was considered a customary right, as theft.
 Marx's engagement with the social and economic issues of the Mosel region had far-reaching consequences for his scientific self-understanding. It is the realization that "Anatomy of bourgeois society" is therefore to be sought in the economic conditions.
 Marx himself describes this changed perspective in the preface to his work "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" from 1859 as follows: "My investigation led to the result that legal relations as well as state forms are neither to be understood from themselves nor from the so-called general development of the human spirit, but rather are rooted in the material living conditions.".

6:00 p.m. thematic tour of the exhibition on the Winemaker's Storm 1926 (ground floor)
Dr. Matthias Vollet
7:00 p.m. lecture (3rd floor, large meeting room)
Prof. Dr. Dieter Hüning (University of Trier)