and then workers would naturally revolt, leading to communism whereby the workers would become the dominant social class and collectively control the means of production. But, like Adam Smith and David Ricardo before him, Marx predicted that because of capitalism's relentless pursuit of profit by w...
Marx devoted himself to an intensive study of history and elaborated on his idea of historical materialism, particularly in a manuscript (published posthumously as The German Ideology), the basic thesis of which was that "the nature of individuals depends on the material conditions determining their ...
This most difficult moment is concluded with the new, more perfect marriage of King and Queen, the gnostic syzygy in the form of the commodity, already deconstructed, yet united in a new critical whole. The alchemical triad of mercury, sulfur, and salt exists as exchange value, use value, ...