Forget Marx: Money Does Not Raise the Dead. The Phallus Does

Marx’s theory failed because religions removed the creative force from the center of civilization

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This article is about a great historical shift — a moment when civilization lost its creative force, and replaced it with money and submission.

Karl Marx claimed that one class appropriates the fruits of the labor of the working class. He believed that money itself is the instrument of this theft, creating new forms of slavery and exploitation. He called his theory “materialist,” but the problem is that it is not materialist enough. In the material world, nothing disappears. If one class commits theft, something must be lost. But what is that thing?

Marx has no answer.

If theft is truly a material act, then it must carry a material cost. Yet Marx only sees one side of the equation: “The worker suffers, the capitalist takes.” He does not see what the capitalist loses in the process. He does not ask: What force is lost when someone chooses theft instead of creation?

Marx did not believe one could progress through theft. Yet he also assumes the thief loses nothing — that only by changing the economic and social structure can such theft be prevented. Thus, Marx remains trapped within…