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Who's your favorite philosopher or religious figure and what is their key thought explained simply?
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The only constants in this world are death, taxes, and leftist theory being incredibly verbose (said with love).
Solid summary though, thank you for sharing. It reads fairly accessibly not unlike Graeber and Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything.
Thanks! If I had to oversimplify, I'd say Marxism is a study of change. I feel that that doesn't really say much to those who don't already know about it, though, so I went for simplifying the core concepts into an admittedly lengthy but straightforward overview. I appreciate it!