• susieq0044@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    Actually, I am from Trier in Germany, where Karl Marx was born. Although in the US he’s mostly known exclusively (and wrongly) as the founder of communism, in Europe his ideas have mostly led to the creation of social democratic parties, which brought considerable wealth to many countries here, in the form of social-economics (Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, France, etc.). So Marx should be considered and lauded as an important philosopher. Naturally, his image has been hijacked eg by communist Russia, with which he probably wouldn’t have agreed himself.