
Karl Marx, Conspiracy Theorist
Theory & Philosophy
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Marks as a Conspiracy Theorist
A theory that is an explanation about an event or phenomenon that can be ascribed to two or more people working to disenfranchise one group in order to enfranchise themselves. So these are two people working perhaps in secret, maybe not necessarily so, to take someone else's stuff or power and instill their own for gain of power. Now we can mostly find evidence of this within his volumes of capital, mostly in footnotes really, where there is maybe the most use of conspiracy theories. And if we look back even further to the work of Adam Smith, we find very similar arguments being raised.
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