Since the beginning of class we have learned that it was the philosophers that would ask the hard questions and it's both interesting and funny pondering their response to the age-old question, "why did the chicken cross the road?"
Reviewing Marx in class not only allows for his "response" to make sense but it makes it all the more funny. I think that in a Marxist society that the chicken just wouldn't have to worry about crossing the road because the means for him to do so would be already provided for him.
With that said Marx's faux response seems to me like he comes off as this, "it was written in the stars" sort of guy, which may not be entirely true but it does have some truth in it I feel. Sure one can certainly learn from the past to know more about the present and even into the near future, but can one use the past to define something beyond that?
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