One of Marx’s most famous phrases is that “religion […] is the opium of the people.” This much-quoted statement, paraphrased from the introduction of Marx’s 1844 work Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, forms part of a larger critique of capitalist society. Marx’s basic argument is that religion had a social function much like opium, insofar as it eases the pain of suffering people, while reducing people’s ability to actually confront the oppressive nature of the institutions within which they found themselves.
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possibly a commie love child born in texas
One of Marx’s favorite bon-mots was to quote his mother, who once said: “I wish you could make some capital rather than just writing about it.” Seems like a pretty universal wish for mothers across the globe.
General Sherman Tree located in Sequoia National Park in California is, by volume, the largest-known living single stem tree in the world. The tree used to go by the name of the Karl Marx tree. It was named after the German Giant because of its location within an American utopian socialist community founded in the park in 1886.
An American Civil War Union General once plotted to kill Karl Marx for being too conservative. Yeah, you read that one right! August Willich was a Prussian-born revolutionary communist who was a co-leader of the anti-Marx group of the League of Communists during the 1840s. Out of political animosity, Willich publically insulted Marx as a means to goading him into a duel where Willich planned to kill young Karl. Marx declined to duel and it never happened. Willich later emigrated to the United States and joined the Union Army where he fought in the Civil War as a General.
Marx’s most famous work, the Communist Manifesto, was published in 1848 with Friedrich Engels credited as a co-author. The Manifesto, which was originally published as a 23-page pamphlet, describes and analyzes capitalism as a political and economic system and ultimately predicts its overthrow by an organized working class. The Manifesto famously ends with the declaration that “working men of all countries, unite!”
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not even rosenstiens gerbil