Many assume Marx was intellectually honest when it doesn't appear he was. He gave us the means to destroy our societies, but he did not give us a workable or foundational rule of law or bill of rights in which to hang our civility on to reestablish or rebuild it.
He gave up 10 planks in The Communist Manifesto which has worked at destroying any assemblance of, prosperity, liberty and justice in any society, but then leaves us hanging.
Like I say to many Marxists, give me some operational rules like our Constitution tried to do and tell me when we should give up a right for the common good, as the Bill of Rights tried to do and then we can talk.
As someone I once read wrote "communism is the social method through laws, for the ruling class to steal the wealth of a nation." and Marx gave them the outline. The question is, was Marx a Zionist of not?
It is a fact that much of academia and the mainstream media has been affected by very powerful special interests for a very long time that promote gatekeeping, as economist and Professor Thomas Di Lorenzo writes about in his book Lincoln Unmasked. He devotes a couple of chapters on it that is well referenced and very interesting as he goes through what historians tried to conceal versus the material facts.
If you haven't read this book, you are missing some really interesting facts and observations.
We like to think as a society we're better than everyone else and thus in situations like the civil war, we the Union was 100% correct and righteous in their ambitions and results. Obviously there is little truth in war other than some people win, usually the more wealthy and some people lose, usually everyone else, especially young males.
Thus, It's not a joke.
The various meanings of being? An entire chapter? Let's logically ty to define the meanings of consciousness while we're at it.
Now if you want to analyze the general differences between men and women using dialecticism which women often use and men, which most do not use, that would be interesting.