Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar

Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar

The famed German co-authored The Communist Manifesto with fellow scholar Friedrich Engels in 1848, a piece of writing that makes the case for the political theory of socialism — where the community (rather than rich people) have ownership and control over their labor — which later inspired millions of people to resist oppressive political leaders and spark political revolutions all over the world. Although Marx was raised in a middle-class family, he later became a scholar who struggled to make ends meet — a working-class man, he thought, who could take part in a political revolution.

What is Red-Brownism?

What is Red-Brownism?

This line of thinking is often subversive. Many socialists follow the commentary of Glenn Greenwald and Michael Tracey, who have developed a recent reputation for appearing regularly on Tucker Carlson, whose political views are fascistic. These appearances usually consist of them all happily gloating together at some mistake on the part of liberalism — which often invites parts of the socialist left to partake as well.

Are Socialists More Like Libertarians Than We’d Prefer To Admit?

Are Socialists More Like Libertarians Than We’d Prefer To Admit?

And I know that however absurd or impossible it sounds, there are a lot of libertarians, leftists, Democratic Socialists, Libertarian Party members, independents, anarchists, conservatives, liberals, and Americans of all or no political affiliations who agree—or, at the very least, think and talk about politics and society in surprisingly similar ways. It can’t hurt for us revolutionaries, whichever side we’re on, to occasionally remember that.

My commentary:

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