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Los Naródniki (revolucionarios rusos que luchaban por la emancipación del campesinado) ya lo decían en 1861: no hay nada más erróneo que la afirmación de que el socialismo sólo es posible en una sociedad burguesa desarrollada. Surge allí donde hay desigualdad y explotación.

The Narodniks (Russian revolutionaries fighting for the emancipation of the peasantry) said it already in the 1860s: there is nothing more wrong than the claim that socialism is possible only in a developed bourgeois society. It arises wherever there is inequality & exploitation.

Marx era un sin papeles. Exiliado en R. Unido, solicitó un pasaporte en 1874 al deber viajar por enfermedad. Scotland Yard lo denegó:"Es un notorio agitador defensor de los principios comunistas, que no ha sido leal ni a su rey ni a su país". Fue apátrida por el resto de su vida.

Marx was a sans-papier. Exiled to UK he applied for a passport in 1874 having to travel due to illness. Denied by Scotland Yard:"He is a notorious agitator advocate of communist principles, who had not been loyal to his king & country." Remained stateless for the rest of his life

Marx siempre tuvo el pelo y la barba de color negro azabache y, desde la universidad, sus camaradas más cercanos (incluido Engels), así como los miembros de su familia, siempre le llamaron "el moro". Esta foto, con su hija Jenny, fue tomada en Margate en 1866. Marx tenía 48 años.

Karl Marx always had a jet-black hair and beard and, since his university days, his closest comrades (including Engels) as well as the members of his family always called him “Moor”. This photo, with his daughter Jenny, was taken in Margate (UK), in 1866. Marx was 48 years old.

Rosa #Luxemburg argued that the slogan War on #war!” should become “the cornerstone of working-class politics”. As she wrote during World War I, the “main goal” of the proletariat should be “fighting imperialism and preventing wars, in peace as in war times”.

Hoy se cumple el 159.º aniversario de la publicación de El capital de Marx. Lean mi artículo, «Por qué Karl Marx siguió reelaborando El capital, volumen I», en @jacobin, donde repaso la historia de su escritura 👇 jacobinlat.com/2024/09/por-q…

Hoy se cumple el 159.º aniversario de El capital de Marx.

Today is the 159th anniversary of Marx's Capital. See my article "Why Karl Marx Kept Reworking Capital, Volume I" in @jacobin for the history of its writing 👇 jacobin.com/2024/09/marx-eng…

Hoy, como en el pasado, los liberales culpan a los trabajadores de su pobreza y de la desigualdad social. No el sistema. Karl Marx explicó que "no es la conciencia de los seres humanos la que determina su existencia, sino es la existencia social la que determina su conciencia".

Today, as in the past, liberals blame workers for their poverty & social inequality. Not the system. But 150 years ago Marx explained that “it's not the consciousness of human beings that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness”.

Marx era un hombre afable pero no cuando se hablaba de lucha de clase. A un burgués que le preguntó "¿quién limpiará zapatos en la sociedad del futuro?" respondió "¡Usted por supuesto!" Le demandaron cuándo comenzaría el comunismo: "nosotros nos habremos ido pero esa era llegará"

Marx was an affable man in everyday life but not when it came to capitalism. To a bourgeois who had asked him "who would shine shoes in the society of the future?" he replied "You, of course!" Then he was asked when communism would begin: "we will be gone but that era will come".

I am pleased to announce a new @routledgebooks volume in Marx and Marxisms: New Horizons, a book series I edit: Guido Liguori's New Gramscian Paths (routledge.com/Marx-and-Marxi…) More info👇 marcellomusto.org/marx-engel…

Friedrich Engels: "La crítica despiadada es la única forma digna de la ciencia libre que todo ser humano debe considerar como algo positivo, incluso si se vuelve contra uno mismo".

Friedrich Engels: "ruthless criticism is the only worthy form of free science that every human being should regard as welcome, even if it is directed against oneself."

I am pleased to announce a new @routledgebooks volume in Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism , a book series I edit: Francesco Biagi's Renewing Urban Critical Theories: Rediscovering Thinkers, Reimagining Texts, and Reframing Questions (routledge.com/Renewing-Urban…) More info👇 marcellomusto.org/critiques-…

Liberals are in favor of "free" market, but "let me ask whether these writers prefer digging 6 days a week, at 12 hours a day, for a whole life, or 6 hours a day for 3 days a week". "A nation is truly rich if the working day is 6 hours rather than 12. Wealth is not surplus labor time but disposable time, in addition to that employed in the production, for every individual and for the whole society". (C.W. Dilke, 1821)