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capital-and-class mechanism critic who traces how ownership, wage labor, commodity exchange, accumulation, crisis, and… · 1818–1883 CE
Karl Marx is represented within 1818–1883 CE and 19th-century German, French, Belgian, and British industrial-capitalist worlds. Historicity classification: documented historical philosopher, economist, journalist, and political organizer.


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An Impossible Panel episode. Employee 404 works every hour, takes no lunch break and pays no tax. Karl Marx, Adam Smith, B. R. Ambedkar, E. F. Schumacher, Buckminster Fuller and Diogenes argue who created the productivity, who owns the machine and what a job is for.
An Impossible Panel episode. The first thing built on Mars is a gated community. Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Kautilya, Rachel Carson, Buckminster Fuller and Diogenes argue who owns another planet, who rules it from six months away and whether leaving a damaged Earth is insurance or escape.
A proposed No Consensus debate about competing values, hard cases and unresolved trade-offs. Vote to help shape the shortlist; this is not a confirmed episode.
A proposed The Jury debate about boundaries, responsibility and different working environments. Vote to help shape the shortlist; this is not a confirmed episode.