Capital(Ist) Punishment
My maternal grandmother would often quote Karl Marx as she sipped her coffee and completed her crossword puzzle in pen. “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles,” she would say, “…The Communist Manifesto.” Growing up, I knew my grandmother was intelligent, but it was only as I grew older, listening to every family story I could, that I began to understand her political views and the reason she was convinced that change is necessary. Although I’ve since learned that Marx wrote these words in 1848, the reality is that we still live in a society of class struggles. From Russia’s monarchy that my great-grandmother fled to the capitalistic society that is now present in America, class struggle has only become worse. Capitalism has often been described as modern and progressive, but my family’s history demonstrates otherwise. The stories of my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and even my own mother show that today’s world......
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