In a book titled, Life Looks Up, Charles Templeton said the history of this world has been changed by events which took place in two small upper rooms. These rooms are separated not only by thousands of miles, but by nearly thousands of years. Yet the events which took place within those walls have changed the course of human history more than any other events mankind has ever known.

The first "upper room" is a drab flat over a dingy laundry in a poor district in London. Through the dirty, curtainless windows we see a round table piled high with strange stacks of articles, worn manuscripts, an old pipe, and a few odds and ends. A man is seated at the table, writing with passionate intensity. This man is Karl Marx, the father of Communism. He is writing the book which he titled Das Kapital…