ABSTRACT
The ghost spent his whole life not just as a revolutionary writer but also an activist. He knows that the activist life has risks and dead-ends. He was kicked out of countries for his revolutionary action, and he often was dead broke. The ghost fought constantly with other factions and parties. But he had to keep at it. Karl Marx was both incendiary writer and activist, and he knew the costs. In his 20s and 30s, he worked as a revolutionary journalist and labor organizer. France and Germany, frightened by the success of his activism, exiled him. Marx had to move to London, where he organized the First International, the first worldwide association of socialist party and labor organizations. He can be considered the Western world's first activist against capitalist globalization. Hence the ghost also focused on structural reasons why capitalism would self-destruct and that revolutions always are partly unplanned, spontaneous responses to structural crises.
