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inpsirational 2 min read 439 views May 10, 2018

A Belated CC Das Kapital Wicked Candle Box Event For Karl Marx

Born May 5, 1818,

     in Trier Germany 

     to Heinrich and Henrietta Marx,

sans the third of nine children 

     (and second oldest heir) 

     Karl Marx thinking

     begot incendiary sparks,

asper his two

     most controversial publications 

     titled The Communist Manifesto, 

     and Das Kapital

which political philosophy

incubating seeds

     of self destruction didst birth

doctrines of class struggle, 

     historical materialism, dearth

of equitable wealth, and inherent 

     contradictions of industrial capital 

     distributed unevenly 

     across avast swath of Earth 

thus inviting his perspective
 
     (conveniently exploited, 

     mined, and usurped) advocating 

     the working class (proletariat) 

     to expedite organized

     revolutionary action

to topple capitalism and bring about 

     socio-economic emancipation,

where wages of sin

     exchanged for labor bled

fingers to the bone

     life source, viz proletariat

till slaving laborer

     nearly became gratefully dead

despite being

     encased in 12 point

Times New Roman garb,

     who incessantly fed

insatiably maws of production,

(no way to get

     a supportive talking head)

particularly highlighted

within schema of Capitalism),

a predominant paradigm

stratifying society led

to internal

     tensions engendered

between bourgeoisie red

dilly controlling means 

     of production codified as said

as die a critical approach Marx coined 

     as historical materialism,

    where figurative

     landmines forced one to tread
 
gingerly, thus

     above stated philosophy 

     would supposedly

     lead down the road 

     where self destruction

     wrought marriage
 
     birthing Socialism offspring

     from shot gun wed

     ding, thus coaxing 

     eventual establishment 

of classless communist society meant

to establish free association

     of Indie producers who spent

exchanging merchandise

     amidst classless 

     campy population

     hood pitched a tent.

 

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