Tag: Marxism
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Karl Marx, the American Worker, and the Natural Rise of Socialist Movements
Karl Marx is possibly history’s most divisive figure. I argue that he unfairly gets a bad reputation for simply writing down what the world was already thinking. Marx’s ideas on wage slavery, capital, and exploitation were already on the minds of the American labor class years before they even knew who Karl Marx was. That…
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Wage Slavery: A Quick History
Noam Chomsky Interview: History is Not Over, April 18, 1997: “Go back to the 1870s, the New York Times was denouncing wage labor. The standard of the Republican Party around 1870 was “We’re the party who opposes slavery and who opposes wage slavery.” The Republican Party, you know, we’re not talking about wild radicals. It…