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Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History | James Lindsay

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Carl Marx Was an Economic Theorist

Karl Marx was an economic theorist at all well it's because he literally talks about economics and almost everything he ever wrote except his weird poetry to Satan that he wrote when he was like 19. He wanted to go to the social club and spout off social theory and write lots of books about capitalism  and complain about Adam Smith and complain about every other thing he could complain about, says historian David Frum. "He suckled off of Frederick Ingalls bank account teat for most of his life" writes Engels' daughter-in-law in a letter written after her death.

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