/lit/ - Literature

You think the "unskilled workers" of Ancient Egypt didn't know who ruled them?

Do you think medieval peasants were unconscious of the feudal system, and where they stood in it?

You're incredibly confused.

Marx wrote about something everyone knew about. Philosophers have been talking about for a long long long time before him. May not have used the same language, but it essentially meant the same thing.

The distribution of resources. What Marx did was elaborate the complexity of it with the developing industrial world. Yet still, the basic principles have been known for eons prior.