The opening phrase in the quote—"Existing society is the history of class struggles"—is a slightly shortened and rephrased version of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' famous line from the Communist Manifesto (1848):"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."However, the rest of the quote—everything about the garbage collector as the "hidden pole of accumulation," heaps of refuse as the "dialectical negation of profit," and the "material shadow cast by the gleaming commodity-form"—is not from Marx (or Engels). It doesn't appear in the Manifesto, Capital, or any of their other writings. Extensive checks for those distinctive phrases turn up no matches in Marx's texts or reliable scholarly sources.The rest of the quote isn't from Marx, and it's not a direct quote or close paraphrase from anyone else identifiable. It's best classified as a modern, anonymous pseudo-Marxist riff or fabrication.
Reading that quote from comrade Marks made me think about a Kamala Harris word salad. They both make about as much sense, but Marx knows a lot more impressive-sounding words than would ever occur to Kamala.
Kamala Harris sounds just like her idol...
That’s actually really stupid because there are obviously entire businesses around waste removal that employs many people.
If he was speaking metaphorically, then it is even worse - a profound sounding statement that doesn’t actually say or mean anything.
Karl Marx is the wins hands down the contest for being full of crap. It just leaks out his eyes.
That explains the arrival of Janitors for Justice in Silicon Valley in the 90’s.
They then morphed into SEIU