Electric Owl posted:

Before reading this article I wondered what could have driven Marx to write a treatise that challenged and interrogated the power structures of capital. Surely something radical like Kapital would be difficult to write and make him lose the grace of, and become a perennial target for, the bourgeoisie who, Marx surely knew, would do everything in their power to discredit and belittle him and his ideas. And, to no small degree, we see the nefarious results of his sacrifice to this day in the wholesale dismissal of Marx's work by the intellectually bankrupt economic departments of elite universities and the general stigma of his name. So what could have driven a man to such a Christ-like sacrifice of his own material for the sake of the greater good? and what sort of sights would a man have to experience before he was ready to offer himself to that alter of love?