Marx and Money

Karl Marx, the alleged economist who sought to scientifically prove the inevitable downfall of capitalism and subsequent proletarian revolution leading the world into communism, was entirely unable to manage his personal finances. An overview of his abominable mooching and spending.
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Marx and the Proletarian Revolution

 

It wasn’t just Marx who saw how commoners were being exploited by the juggernaut of capital. Both left and right-wing politicians, aristocrats, union delegates and intellectuals helped introduce numerous laws—the British Factory Acts—to alleviate the burden of the worker. It was hard for Marx to disapprove publicly of these laws, but in his heart, he did. Firmly convinced that class struggle was “the great lever of social transformation”, he distanced himself from the fledgling German Social Democrat Party because it was “showing that it does not wish to pursue the path of forcible, bloody revolution”. Remediating injustices through peaceful and legal means, as the party intended, would not lead to a great revolution and was thus not the desirable approach?

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