Tag: Marx

Getting Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche Talking

When locked at home in a Covid huddle sick of streaming looking for News, watching tennis or waiting for Survivor to begin it’s sometimes interesting to see what these two men may have thought of each other.

Karl Marx believed in the self-emancipation of the working class, while Friedrich Nietzsche had nothing but disdain for the masses. But a provocative new book claims the two thinkers can be read together to develop a socialism for today.

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A Critique of Obscene Wealth | The Smirking Chimp

Unjust, unnecessary, and undemocratic, extreme wealth must and does strive to secure global capitalism’s support and sustenance. The considerable success of these means to secure wealth has now led to the increasing criticism of capitalism. The existing system produces an economic inequality so extreme that it reacts back to jeopardize both obscene wealth and the system itself. At that, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Marx would smile.

Source: A Critique of Obscene Wealth | The Smirking Chimp

Why Conservatives Get Karl Marx Very, Very Wrong

WATCH: Chris Hedges: ‘Marx: The System Is the Problem’

Is it possible to break taboos through laughter in Islamic societies? – Your Middle East

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Is it possible to break taboos through laughter in Islamic societies? – Your Middle East.