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    Marx: From Broke Exile to Revolutionary Genius

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    Discover how Karl Marx's personal poverty fueled his groundbreaking critique of capitalism, revealing hidden mechanisms of exploitation that still shape our world today.

    Marx: From Broke Exile to Revolutionary Genius

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    The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. In any class-divided society, the people who own the means of production have fundamentally different interests from the people who have to sell their labor to survive.

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