Karl Marx

The great philosopher Karl Marx argues that workers are exploited under capitalism. In this article, I focus on his theory of wage exploitation and leave his theory of alienation for another day. Wage Exploitation Marx’s key claim is that workers are forced to sell their labour to a capitalist for less than…

Nature itself has determined a sphere of activity in which animals must move, and they peacefully move within that sphere, not trying to go beyond it or even suspecting another. -Karl Marx. Marx's first reflection is more philosophical at its root in the meaning of Work, where each individual receives…

School, for me, has been a place of extreme reminisce and even today if I catch a view of education or learning processes something online or on television, or read some matter it always ends in a nostalgia for school and a quite dreadful one. 12 unsound years of being…

I admit honestly — I couldn’t even finish reading part 1 — I stopped at 55% of the work. The thought and work of Marx are rather ponderous. …

One of the points that I made in an essay that I wrote titled “Religion in the Pan-African Struggle” is that Marxism and Christianity seemed to be diametrically opposed in some respects given that Marx was critical of religion and Marxists have generally followed in this tradition. The Soviet Union…

Children have always been seen as a factor to contribute to the household. Before the Industrial Revolution, children were expected to help tend the fields/gardens, assist with mending clothing, and do other household chores. The emergence of the Industrial Revolution tied the capitalistic ideology of the exchange market and society…

The possibilities of AI producing a hypothetical debate between Marx and Smith are fascinating to explore. While AI is not yet advanced enough to fully replicate human thought processes and emotional responses, it is capable of generating complex arguments and analyzing vast amounts of data. A hypothetical debate between Marx…

The movie I aim to critically analyze is “The Truman Show” which is my particular favorite because it stars Jim Carrey and Ed Harris who are exceptional in their respective performances and the whole idea this movie encompasses, is so mind-boggling that it compelled me to question, to become…

Work used to be a simple exchange between an employer and an employee — the employee showed up to do their job, and the employer paid them. However, since the 1950s, we have seen a decline in the return on assets, and things have only gotten worse since the pandemic…