Marx for Beginners

A philosopher and honest journalist? Does he plan to die of hunger?

To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

The Age of Faith: and by 'faith' understand the denial of all scientific reasoning.

they created huge empires of faithful slaves “by the will of the supreme gods”…

Nobody likes being exploited, unless they're unaware of it, and many aren't aware of it because they believe that's how life is and you can't change it.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman; and modern society is a mass composed solely of individual families as its molecules. Today, in the great majority of cases, the man has to be the earner, the breadwinner of the family, at least among the propertied classes, and this gives him a dominating position which requires no special legal privileges. In the family, he is the bourgeois; the wife represents the proletariat.

This situation changed with the patriarchal family and even more with the monogamous individual family. The administration of the household lost its public character. It was no longer the concern of society. It became private service. The wife became the first domestic servant, pushed out of participation in social production.

Marx never had a steady income or a permanent job or a bank account… But what he couldn’t earn for his own family, he won for Millions of others through his writings…

Before seeking refuge in London, Marx and Engels had taken part in a secret society called the “Communism League” which commissioned them to prepare the now famous (Rest assured that we didn’t earn a penny from it…) COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

the worker works to live. What he earns goes into keeping his family alive, and so he passes the

One of Aristotle’s most interesting discoveries is that social conflicts arise from the inequality in Economic and Social conditions…

The Egyptian argument was quite simple: men were created by Osiris and must obey his will on this earth. They must put up with slavery in the hope that, if they behave well, a better after-life awaits them in the next world – no more slavery, only eternal bliss…

The first thing religion invented was a faith in the “Beyond”, the After Life …

Even religion had to invent some kind of science for itself (Theology = The philosophy of divinity) To justify its existence.

Philosophy started as Criticism of religious beliefs. By seeking logical reasons for the things in nature, mankind created the Science of philosophy…*

Locke has the idea that men were free to think of god in their own way, not as any religion told them to…