Karl Marx spent much of his life attempting to understand and describe how capitalism works. In one particularly vivid passage, he described the turbulence he saw as inherent in capitalism: "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind." What sort of relationships did he think his readers had with other people?
A) relationships of community and religion
B) relationships based on social bonds and solidarity
C) economic relationships
D) cultural relationships

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Marx was primarily concerned with economic relationships in his analysis of capitalism. He believed that the capitalist system created class divisions and exploitation through the power dynamics of economic relationships between capitalists and workers.

Karl Marx Spent Much of His Life Attempting to Understand