Interview: Karl Marx on Human Trafficking

by Amanda Kloer · 2009-05-18 07:00:00 UTC
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Each week, I will be bringing you a new interview with a formerly-active activist or abolitionist, that is, someone now deceased.  I'll be talking to the men and women who paved the way for the abolitionists of today and getting their thoughts on the problems and solutions of modern-day slavery.  How do I contact not just the dead, but the famous and dead?  Every good blogger must have her secrets!

This week... Karl Marx

How's the afterlife treating you?

Up here, sharing is caring for real.

Te he he... so, for those non-biography readers out there, how about you tell me a little about yourself.

I am best known as the founder of communism, but I was also a German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary.  My most famous, book, The Communist Manifesto, describes the world as a series of class struggles, and claims that communism will one day replace capitalism to create a Utopian society.  While I have been harshly criticized for my theories, they have never been fully tested in the way I intended.

What do you think is the biggest problem in the modern-day abolitionist movement?

There is no economic equality in the world.  Now that we live in a globalized society, we must look at the world as one place, and in that place, there is gross economic inequalities.  One people are equal in class and prosperity, then no one will have problems of power and control that create human trafficking.

If you were alive, what would you do to fight slavery?

I would create a non-violent revolution of the new proletariat- the people in developing world countries who are being exploited by the U.S. and Europe, and trafficked into many industries.  They would refuse to work in your factories and your brothels and take back the power that is theirs! 

Any last thoughts for our readers?

 

Everyone up here keeps asking me where my brothers are.  I don't have any brothers.  Am I missing something? 

 

 

 

Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic
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