Karl Marx - his life and ideas

The Karl Marx Walking Tour features in this work by Gilbert and George from their New Normal Exhibition at the White Cube Gallery, London. 

The Karl Marx Walking Tour starts at 11am every Sunday Meeting in front of the Criterion Theatre/Eros, Piccadilly Circus.

This tour lasts 2-2.5 hrs

Every Sunday 11am - 1.30pm (approx)

Standard tickets for the Sunday tour cost £15 (+ eventbrite booking fee) a limited number of concessionary price tickets are available at £10 for those on a low income.

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The meeting Point- 11am Sundays in front of Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly Circus

Running late? The first stop is the Be At One bar 20 Great Windmill St London W1D 7LA - until about 11.30

Marx in London

Karl Marx was the most influential thinker of modern times. His epic life story combines comedy and tragedy, love and hate, hope and despair. This set the backdrop to an intellectual expedition that sought to unravel the mysteries of history, politics, economics and philosophy.

Marx's work inspired protests and strikes, rebellions and revolutions, terrorism and war, struggles for freedom, democracy and liberty, as well as regimes of tyrannical repression.

We walk you through the story of his life in London and explain his ideas and their influence on human destiny. We take you to the places in and around Soho where Marx lived and worked, show you traces of the London he knew, and tell the extraordinary tale of this man who would change the world.

Our guides are experts in the field and have spent decades studying and unravelling the complexities of the life and ideas of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and their followers. On the walking tour we combine this knowledge with the didactic and entertaining style of a storyteller. We explain the intellectual influences of the time and delve into the secrets of Karl Marx's ideas.

We explain the significance of the 1848 revolutions, and the dramatic and bloody events of the 1871 Paris Commune. We describe the life of struggle and hardship of an extraordinary community of European revolutionaries who made Victorian London their home. This circle of refugees developed ideas, organisations and political movements which would shape world politics in the twentieth century.

This walking tour will help you to explain and understand how the modern world and its economic, social and political conflicts came about. The tour does not assume any previous knowledge and it is pitched at a level that will leave everyone from the complete novice to the seasoned expert satisfied. We welcome schools and universities, and provide specialist tours for visiting scholars, media outlets and embassies, etc.

Join us as we walk you through the life, times and ideas of Karl Marx.

Lea Ypi and her Master's students from the London School of Economics on the Marx Walking Tour