Why Marx Matters

Many people agree that being cultured in 'the classics' is important for any education, especially to enrich the minds of young adults who seem to be so consumed by the ever-growing technologies at hand. However, what is your definition of "classic"?

How about Karl Marx? He may not be on your summer reading list but Marx's Das Kapital is still very relevant to our economic and environmental crises today. Just as Crime and Punishment was an exposé on the meat-packing industry, Marx's Das Kapital leads us behind the scenes of capitalism and the scandalous efforts to increase the gap between the rich and the working-class.

As Mike Wayne, author of Marx's Das Kapital For Beginners, states: "whether we are talking about the economic violence of the system...or the decreasing room to peacefully protest without being tasered or worse – all these problems and more can be traced back to the question of capital and unless we name the system within which these problems are developing, [these problems] are doomed to stay at the surface level, addressing symptoms at best, or making the problems worse by following the same discredited capitalist nostrums and prescriptions that are responsible for the problems in the first place."

Read more of Wayne's discussion in "Why Marx's Das Kapital still matters" here: http://bit.ly/KVM8y7