Extreme wealth at the scale of a trillion dollars is a moral and social crisis. Such wealth concentrate power and influence while billions remain in precarity. Drawing on Marx, Smith, and Christian ethics, this essay argues that unbounded accumulation undermines justice, civic equality, and human flourishing, revealing the moral absurdity of extreme inequality.
Colorizing Sociology: Karl Marx – The Theory of Historical Materialism
In 1846, Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels published one of their earliest works together titled The German Ideology. In it they laid out Marx's materialistic conception of history. His theory of historical materialism contends that the material conditions of society, such as the means of it production and the ownership of it affect the nature... Continue Reading →
