Sublime

Karl Marx was among the very first to see that the industrial revolution...opens the possibility of a society in which we people can be lovers of wisdom without being supported by the labor of a mass of illiterate, brutalized, half-starved, and overworked slaves...

Comparatively, abundance is a return to an older tradition of leftist thought. In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels acknowledged that capitalism was superior to its predecessor, feudalism, at producing goods and wealth. “The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal

Según Engels, en su opúsculo El origen de la familia, la propiedad privada y el Estado, la condición de la mujer no es más que una superestructura de la organización económica y de la forma de distribución de la riqueza.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

In the same way as God created Eve to give pleasure to Adam, so did capital create the housewife to service the male worker physically, emotionally, and sexually, to raise his children, mend his socks, and patch up his ego when it is crushed by the work and the social relations (which are relations of loneliness) that capital has reserved for him.

surplus generally went to support the nonlaboring ruling class,