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THE PRODUCTION OF TOO MANY USEFUL THINGS RESULTS IN TOO MANY USELESS PEOPLE. KARL MARX
Daniel Godfrey • The Synapse Sequence
Capitalism is a historical form of life in which wage labor is the foundation of social wealth. The deepest stakes of Marx’s critique of capitalism reside in his critique of the measure of value that is entailed by the dependence of society on wage labor.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
Marx’s thought was in many ways rooted in that of one Georg Wilhelm Friederich Hegel, the German late-Enlightenment philosopher with a teleological view of history, whom Schopenhauer hated and lost his students to. To Hegel, the chapters of humanity’s story are connected by violence and revolution. These charges are brought about by visionary revol
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But in spite of the shortcomings of his analysis, Marx had raised some basic questions. I was deeply concerned from my early teen days about the gulf between superfluous wealth and abject poverty, and my reading of Marx made me ever more conscious of this gulf. Although modern American capitalism had greatly reduced the gap through social reforms,
... See moreClayborne Carson • The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
La critique du capitalisme439 de Karl Marx était partiellement basée sur l’affirmation correcte que la Révolution Industrielle a rompu le lien historique entre l’artisan et le bien qu’il produit. Dans le travail à la chaîne, le travailleur n’est qu’un engrenage dans une machine gigantesque; et la machine ne se préoccupe pas du besoin d’efficience d
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