Caleb Maupin: History and Overview of Marxism in 12 Minutes + Socialist Heroism in Our Time

Karl Marx by Robert Diedrichs, 1970. Courtesy WikiCommons

Image by Royal Opera House Covent Garden via Flickr

with Caleb Maupin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Caleb Maupin (website)
Caleb Maupin (Facebook Page)
June 5, 2019

“Marxism and Karl Marx taught us there are two classes. There is the bourgeois and the proletariat. There are those who own the major centers of economic power, the factories, the banks, the means of transport, the means of communication and make profits from them. And then there are the rest of us who sell our labor power to those capitalists in order to survive. We get wages, we live by working, we’re proletarians. They live by owning, they’re capitalists.” — Caleb Maupin

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