The philosophers have only interpreted the world in
various ways. The point however, is to
change it.
-Karl
Marx
Many of us aspire to make the world a better place. We long for the ideals of liberté, egalité, and fraternité, as expressed in the French motto, to be realized globally. But is that possible? Or is it merely daydreaming? Wishful thinking?
Standing by Karl Marx’s grave, at Highgate Cemetery, London, and reading the epitaph “Workers of all lands, unite!”, I couldn’t help reflecting on whether his concepts, articulated in Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, could have led to genuine positive transformations in the world had they not been perverted by those who claimed to be following in his footsteps.
© William Almonte Jiménez, 2015
