Jason Barker (born 1971) is a British theorist of contemporary French philosophy, a novelist, film director, screenwriter, and producer.

[2] He was previously a visiting professor at the European Graduate School,[3] having taught in the Faculty of Media and Communication alongside Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jacques Rancière, Avital Ronell, Slavoj Žižek, and others.

[4] Most notable for his translation and introductions to the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Barker draws on an eclectic range of influences including neoplatonism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxism.

The story focuses on the life of Karl Marx and his struggle to write his major work on political economy, Capital.

The London Evening Standard cited the film alongside the 2012 re-edition of The Communist Manifesto and Owen Jones' best-selling book Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class as evidence of a resurgence of left-wing ideas.