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Throughout the 20th Century, Karl Marx’s visage often appeared on communist banners in the guise of a mighty, bearded prophet, the first and greatest in an array of great thinkers that also included Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. So it may be slightly odd and amusing to think of him in his mid-20s living in Paris as the editor of a magazine. Digging into the letters and writings that Marx produced in those years, and the writings of those who knew him, always turns up something interesting—and occasionally something utterly fascinating. The year was 1844. Hoping to unite German and...

Hegelianism n. The monist, idealist philosophy of Hegel in which the dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis is used as an analytic tool in order to approach a higher unity or a new thesis.*******Political Party: 1- Are you frustraded with your party?2- Has your party endorsed your conservative agenda?3- It resembles your agenda but performs as an alien to your core beliefs!***1- Who is the Thiest? the Democrates? 2- Who is the Antitheist the Republicans?3- Is SYNTHESIS purpose to TO return to Feudelsim?*** FEUDALISM My observation on 1- How many of the rich can afford to buy elections!2- How the...

When describing the methodology of socialism, early 19th century French jurist Fredric Bastiat wrote of "the poison and the antidote created in the same laboratory." Bastiat theorized that the rabble-rousers of his day, whom he described as the poison, were working hand in glove with the elitist socialists, whom he described as the antidote. The 19th century socialists, while quietly instigating the rabble-rousers, would then offer their services as a remedy to a terrorized population. The predominantly white middle class protesters presently performing their theatre art outside of the World Bank-IMF in Washington D.C. are today's poison while the proposed...