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've been trying to figure out the core belief of civility libs
My current guess is something like misanthropy or subconscious classism. I think they're scared of mass insurrection because they look down on the mass public. I feel like I often hear them voice sweeping negative opinions about human nature, like "people are stupid," "people are gullible," "people are greedy." My hunch is that this sentiment can be challenged and corrected, if their personality isn't too malignant and they don't have some innate need to feel better than other people.
The core belief of civility libs is white supremacy
Centrists Are the Most Hostile to Democracy, Not Extremists - NYT
https://archive.is/GkeYJ
The psychological impulses you're talking about are just exactly the same things that push people into fascism explicitly. The difference for civility libs is that they live comfortably enough that their highly hierarchical and misanthropic view of the world doesn't clash with their position within it; it's the exact same ideology as what turns men into incels, for example, when they don't get what they feel they deserve.
At the core of it, it's just chauvinism. Everyone is inferior to me. My people (who could be other civility libs) have it figured out, everyone else is a bunch of animals. And animals must be put in their place. Thankfully, the whole system already achieved that goal, so we just need to maintain the status quo.