Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.
Among Marx’s best-known texts are the “The Communist Manifesto” and the three-volume “Das Kapital”, in which he set out to define and explain the behavior of the capitalist mode of production.
Marx’s political and philosophical thought have had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
Marx’s critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.
Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.
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Not to bring up old business but why were we calling Harris by her first name? Was just sexism or was the DNC trying to play up diversity?
It’s how she mostly branded herself. Like, her campaign website was “KamalaHQ.” It’s more unique and memorable.
Bernie is usually referred to by his first name. No one was out here saying “Vote for Sanders.” He used his first name in most of his marketing too, my bumper sticker just said “Bernie 2016.”
AOC tends to use her initials in branding and that’s how people usually refer to her, not sure if that’s the chicken or the egg though. Several older ones for initials too, FDR, JFK, LBJ, RFK.
Not his actual name but a nickname, Dwight D. Eisenhower campaigned with the slogan “I/We like Ike”
I know people were branding it as sexism but aside from
I can’t even think of another female politician that just gets referred to by her first name, and 
was married to a president so last name isn’t really helpful with that one
When I Google Kamala Harris campaign I see plenty of decorations that say Harris, but I also see a non-0 amount where she is self-refererentially Kamala.
That’s gotta factor into the algebra.
All of the politicians I can think of that are mostly known by their first name it’s self referential. Kamala, Hillary, Bernie, they all put their first names as the thing on signs and stickers, it was how they tried to be known.
I think mostly sexism and a small part of it was people calling her by her full name when she was VP/AG compared to like just calling Biden, Biden and then it got shorted to her first name