Karl Marx, living with wife Jenny and child
in Paris now, at last begins to see how
humans’ scourge is deeper than religion.
How our history of economics, always based
as creator, now condemned to technology’s
assembly line and its soul-numbing repetitions,
the proletariat always barely
surviving, intelligence stifled. His
answer would be always the written word:
educating the masses to their plight.
Authority’s response: forever to chase him
out of one city to another, one country to another,
this power struggle never ending through today.
Roger Armbrust
June 11, 2023
