ABSTRACT
The author noticed the blob had morphed into a clear outline of a human being, something like an avatar. He blinked his eyes and then closed them for a second, wondering if he was dreaming. When he opened his eyes, author saw a fully formed human male who was the spitting image of Karl Marx. Marx had a large head, with thick black hair and big, bushy black beard. He had swarthy brown skin, and his hands were dark and bristling with shortly curly black hair. With a waistcoat buttoned up over Marx's large abdomen, he looked like he might be a strong-willed Victorian professor or attorney. Workers across the United States and the world are afraid and alienated, and nearly everyone feels the cold breath of what Marx called egotistical calculation. 'capitalism has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism into the icy water of egotistical calculation'.
