Explanation: Karl Marx, the 19th century academic whose writings were immensely influential on the development of modern socialist thought, famously opined that philosophers had always interpreted the world - but the real task of a thinker is to change it! The humble wage laborer may have been ignored and scorned by innumerable others, both before and during Marx’s time, but Marx saw the importance of opposing the deep injustice in the exploitation of the proletariat - and all the power structures tied up in that system of oppression.

Mods, if this is too political for this comm, I totally understand if you prefer to remove it. I thought it borderline enough to merit taking the chance, since the meme itself isn’t particularly picking a bone with anyone, just making a (positive) joke about a historical philosopher and political thinker.

So the clone trooper throuple that helped out at the end of Star Wars: Rebels were Marxists?

Yeah I don’t really see communism as a positive