← Back to Canon
person

Karl Marx

🎲

German philosopher and economist, author of Das Kapital, referenced in context of stereotypical leftist Brooklyn activists.

Mentions (37)
"what a dumb trumptard am I right leftbros, unlike ME that knows about zizek, Sylvia plath (ahem ladies wink wink) and um..Marx."
The internet freak psyop to cancel Luigi has begun · u/KewlAdam · ↑1683 · 2024-12-10
"This dichotomy began even before the internet age with the advent of photography itself, where one could be "transported" so to speak across time and space by means of photographic stasis (much in the same way Marx labeled trains as apparatuses that destroyed time and space)."
"all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned."
Notes on "Cocaine Bear." · u/JoCrude · ↑430 · 2023-03-03
"saw an onlyfans girl on twitter get mad about how a fundamental part of marxism is that sex work should not exist"
"much in the same way Marx labeled trains as apparatuses that destroyed time and space"
"Big-time Karl Marx was super antisemitic vibes."
The people on this sub act like middle schoolers · u/Sir_Thaddeus · ↑104 · 2022-11-04
"I'm over the Marxist materialist nonsense."
Let's all cancel our red scare subscriptions · u/imsick666 · ↑97 · 2018-10-18
"for most of his career he was a Marxist fellow-traveler"
"I bring up 'under no pretext' and it always falls on deaf ears."
Being a pro-gun gay is so hard 😢 · u/hisfifthundresaxx · ↑82 · 2022-01-26
"Today a non-binary person with a hammer and sickle tattoo (hammer substituted by a vibrator) drew my blood at the clinic."
"So far this is the most emotional part of the Capital. It's quite shocking at what lengths capitalists went to maximize working hours, how inhumanly the workers were treated."
Capital Vol.1 Ch. 10 - squeezing life out of worker · u/FaceObvious5668 · ↑71 · 2025-09-24
"karl marx; [poping out of time machine w the kind of dreadlock wig u would win @ a county fair n doing the adrien brody sean paul voice] mon i smoke the weed mon i love the ganja smoke the herb mon"
"I'm really excited about a book that I ordered online about a month ago and it's about to arrive, it's Karl Marx's love biography."
"whose residents had to have weekly meetings to discuss how Marx would divide up doing the dishes?"
"So how many of you have read Marx, even if only a little?"
How many of you are Marxist or Marxist-adjacent? · u/GlowPart2Enthusiast · ↑61 · 2022-03-29
"Everyone is counting on me to last-minute cram what a "stock" is so I can find a way to geniusly combine it with the words: praxis, class consciousness, neoliberalism, revolution"
"The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital"
True story: · u/[deleted] · ↑56 · 2020-08-17
"Aside from your personal grievances with the average scrawny DSA das kapital-thumping brooklynite"
Why is leftism/socialism wrong? · u/Athousandlashes · ↑48 · 2022-08-29
"Just found out Karl Marx's great great grandson does parkour"
Just found out Karl Marx's great great grandson does parkour · u/RoseGardenFuneral47 · ↑47 · 2025-01-26
"Being willing to take a backseat to Marx despite Marx depending on him for survival. The humility shown by this man is what allowed Marx to write and become who he did."
Engels doesn't get enough credit · u/DashaIsCancelled · ↑46 · 2023-01-30
"Taurus: Andy Murray (stubborn, hardworking, sensual); Vladimir Nabokov (Sensual, and connected to nature); Karl Marx (lazy, generous)."
Astrology is real. · u/Oh_the_limerence · ↑44 · 2025-05-14
"I know a few lefties who love their guns and say things like "Marx wanted to arm the proletariat""
What's the deal with US gun control discourse? · u/AlyoshaKaramazov420 · ↑43 · 2023-03-28
"one time i tuned in and someone was just reading Marx verbatim"
appreciation of radio · u/CopingLow · ↑37 · 2025-12-19
"reading Marx is a Waste of time , do Not listen to people who Like Books"
"Today she told me that Bernie is a Marxist and did I know who else were Marxists? Nazis."
How do you guys deal with friends who are politically retarded · u/BlondwithaTwinkBody · ↑32 · 2020-02-17
"But Hegel was more right than Marx about world-historic facts and personages appearing twice"
The vibes have officially shifted · u/Deboch_ · ↑29 · 2024-11-07
"His Witches video, the Darwin and Marx one, the housing market one."
Is Olly from PhilosophyTube a hack? · u/havanahilton · ↑26 · 2020-08-12
"So far I've read the Communist Manifesto, uncle ted's manifesto, and history will absolve me(if that counts)."
Manifesto recommendations? · u/[deleted] · ↑25 · 2021-04-16
"Kautsky 👎👎👎 has distorted 🤬🤬🤬 the views of Marx 😍😍😍 on the question 🤨⁉️⁉️ of the relationship of the proletarian revolution ✊✊✊ to the state 👮‍♂️👨‍⚖️👨‍💼!!!!!"
"If Karl Marx rose from the dead what would be his biggest critique of modern American life :)"
"Bisexual girl theory (Marx)"
Bisexual girl theory (Marx) · u/KillerOfMidgets02 · ↑23 · 2023-01-11
"I remember going to Karl Marx's tomb in London a couple years ago with a friend and we met this old Greek dude with a thick accent who told us about the history of communism in his country"
You should talk to strangers more · u/Medical_Zombie3329 · ↑23 · 2025-08-02
"One can apply Marx's arguments about religion very directly to this - that religion was the opium of the masses. Anti-depressants and therapy are the opium of the masses now"
Mark Fisher on Therapy · u/[deleted] · ↑22 · 2019-04-20
"Sorry your lover is dead, but got any spare change by chance?"
Marx hustler mindset 💪 · u/leftisturbanist17 · ↑22 · 2023-08-18
"I got through like half of the Communist Manifesto and have a basic g"
How to cope with realizing you're lowkey regarded · u/Apart_Meringue_6913 · ↑21 · 2025-05-09
"Marxian alienation, the Heideggerian Setup, the Spectacle, Capitalist Realism, renaissance rationalization"
"In Marxian terms we might say: the superstructure follows the base"
powered by Intelligence Briefings Co.