Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.
Among Marx’s best-known texts are the “The Communist Manifesto” and the three-volume “Das Kapital”, in which he set out to define and explain the behavior of the capitalist mode of production.
Marx’s political and philosophical thought have had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
Marx’s critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.
Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.
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I’m writing a character who is a communist in a Russian-inspired world, and I’d like a subtly communist surname for him. I think something like Dzhugashvili is a bit too on the nose, and since most westerners would never have heard of it, they would probably ask me to explain why, and I can’t be bothered to explain that its Stalin’s name. Also this guy is a big dork and really not analogous to Stalin at all. So does anyone have any suggestions?
Koba on the nose but sounds cool
Name him Shavarsh Karapetyan after that soviet diver who, while on a run, saw a school bus full of children fall into a reservoir before diving in and saving every single one
Here are some communist-esque last names:
-Krause
-Olesha (coined allegedly the stalinist phrase „writers are the engineers of the human soul“)
-Stakhanov (too on the nose)
-Mukhin (Vera Mukhina was a very famed artist)
-Pravda
-Prytytski
-Stuchka
-Zagorsky
-Armand (lenin‘s gf)
-Bierut