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How Young Karl Marx Got Radicalized

There was a time when the majority of Ashkenazi Jews, 80 % of the world’s Jews, leaned towards the Left, Democracy, Peace and Secularism. Not however, in Israel where ultra Right- Zionism flourished and the once moderate Likud Party lost control. Israel’s extreme right-wing even assassinated Yittzak Rabin in 1995 for his want of peace and his signing of the Oslo Accords. “Amir studied law and computer science, as well as Jewish law at the Institute for Advanced Torah Studies.[4][5] Amir was strongly opposed to the Oslo Accords. He participated in protest rallies against the accords on campus, was active in organizing weekend bus outings to support Israeli settlers, and helped found an illegal settlement outpost.

He and Dr,Ely David the current wannabe Israel’s propagandist and Dr. Goebbels on “X” seems to have a lot in common Yigal Amir.

Karl Marx started out in a liberal milieu where the primary concern was abolishing religious authoritarianism. In time, he came to believe that abolishing capitalism was necessary for true freedom — and that only the working class could do it.

Source: How Young Karl Marx Got Radicalized

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No, Karl Marx Was Not Eurocentric

Critics of Marx have accused him of imposing a European model of historical development on the rest of the world. But the real Marx rejected Eurocentric thinking and developed a sophisticated view of world history in all its diversity and complexity.

Source: No, Karl Marx Was Not Eurocentric

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Karl Marx Was Right: Workers Are Systematically Exploited Under Capitalism

Even among Marx-friendly economists, the labor theory of value has fallen out of favor. But its technical validity is less important than the core message: workers are exploited because the value they create is undemocratically taken by capitalists.

Source: Karl Marx Was Right: Workers Are Systematically Exploited Under Capitalism

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For Karl Marx, Alienation Was Central to Understanding Capitalism

Karl Marx’s groundbreaking account of labor alienation forms an invaluable part of his thought. For Marx, alienation was fundamental to grasping capitalism and how to dismantle it.

Source: For Karl Marx, Alienation Was Central to Understanding Capitalism

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Jacobin

Karl Marx’s final years of life are often overlooked as a period of intellectual and physical decline. But his thought remained vibrant to the end, as he addressed political questions that are still relevant to us today.

Source: Jacobin

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Grave of Karl Marx smashed with hammer in ‘appalling’ attack — RT UK News

Grave of Karl Marx smashed with hammer in ‘appalling’ attack

Grave of Karl Marx smashed with hammer in ‘appalling’ attack — RT UK News

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Karl Marx as Activist

The lessons of Karl Marx show that our tasks are to heighten class conflict by exposing the reality of abhorrent inequality and create new systems to replace failing capitalism.

via Karl Marx as Activist

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How the world still embraces Karl Marx’s socialist ideals after 200yrs — RT World News

Exactly 200 years after the birth of revolutionary philosopher Karl Marx, his work remains as relevant as ever. As socialism experiences a resurgence, people all over the world are embracing Marxist ideals.

via How the world still embraces Karl Marx’s socialist ideals after 200yrs — RT World News

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China’s President Xi Jinping is pushing a Marxist revival — but how communist is it really? – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Chinese President Xi Jinping and German philosopher Karl Marx.

China’s “Helmsman” President Xi Jinping wants the 1.4 billion people he leads to enthusiastically embrace the teachings of German philosopher Karl Marx, as part of a broader revival of the Communist Party.

“”He believes even though China should go around the world with an open-door policy, the party-state apparatus should still be largely in control of the economy,” he said.”

Question who promotes “we”  over  “me” thinking and rational economic and social planning for 1.4 billion people better America, China, India, or Russia? (ODT)

China’s President Xi Jinping is pushing a Marxist revival — but how communist is it really? – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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The historic critique made by capitalism’s “most prescient and significant” observer.

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