Das Kapital sciences published before 1950. In "Das Kapital" (1867), Marx proposes that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labor, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of surplus value. The owner of the means of production is able to claim the right to this surplus value because he or she is legally protected by the ruling regime through property rights and the legally established distribution of shares which are by law only to be distributed to company owners and their board members. The historical section shows how these rights were acquired in the first place chiefly through
Karl Marx in film out." At least two episodes of the BBC TV comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" include sketches depicting Marx in modern-day settings, and which lampoon the presumed gravity of his thinking. In one episode Marx competes in a TV quiz show for a lounge suite but fails to win when the show's host poses him a prosaic question about football. "The Young Karl Marx" is a 2017 film about Young Marx directed by Raoul Peck starring August Diehl. Films in which Karl Marx is represented and/or in which his ideas or principal works comprise the main narrative theme: Karl Marx