MySpace scares me a little. I don't get it. I signed up for an account months ago for a (surprise, surprise) Hanson-related reason, but have never done anything with it because I was just like, "What the H???"
i hear ya, sis. i was intimidated at first. but once i just spent like an hour familiarizing myself with it, i realized that it is the coolest thing to come down the pike in quite a while. it's way cooler than lj, though it hurst me to say it. give it a fair shake. you won't regret it.
There are only few times in history when a person changes the way everyone views the world. Karl Marx is a figure that inexorably changed the future of social thought; as an economist, historian, and as a social thinker. Karl Marx wrote in a time of civil unrest, and with his writing came revolutionary ideas about the formation of society. With all profound statements about the make up of social fabric, Marx’s writings are debated and disputed around the validity of his claims. Marxian philosophy has received unfair treatment on both sides of the aisle. The left has taken his writing as a literal call to arms and used it to always point to the endings of capitalism, while the ideological right has seen his works as blasphemous, and an unwarranted attack upon capitalism. These polar assumptions about Marx’s writing are unfair, for they move past Marx’s perspective on how society functions and move directly towards his conclusions of his earlier works. This absence of detailed introspection on the workings of Marxian thought is
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the crux of what Marxian theory is based off of. Marxian social theory is laced with the notion of wealth owners looking for ways to squeeze out more profit and filled with ideas of the rich just getting richer. In his earlier writings Marx ends up getting wrapped up in a notion of exploitation, which he sees as unavoidable and inevitable. This exploitation is what ultimately causes capitalism to come to a grinding halt with the eventual revolution of the working class. It is this prophetic end of capitalism is the main focus of Marxian scholars and critics, because of its profound implications and also is the source of Marx’s political thinking. The exploitation is something that Marx sees that has happened throughout time independent of capitalism. This class warfare is something that Marxists give much merit, and it is a foundation upon how they see the world and history
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