Marx Was a Journalist, So It All Tracks Now

Some say Karl Marx was a philosopher. Others, an economist. But Josephine Harvey knows the truth: he was the original clickbait pioneer.

During a recent HuffPost editorial retreat held at a kombucha farm in Vermont, Harvey unveiled her PowerPoint presentation, “Das Kapital…Letters to the Editor Edition.” In it, she traced the lineage from Marx’s Communist Manifesto to her own revolutionary work, such as the now-canonized line:

“Judge Absolutely Tears Apart Trump’s National Guard Plot”

When asked by colleagues whether Marx would have updated the story after the appeals court reversed the ruling, Josephine reportedly replied, “Marx believed in dialectics. So… no.”

The event ended with Harvey leading a panel titled “Redistributing Context in Modern Journalism,” where she proposed that stories containing right-wing victories should be “collectivized, then quietly euthanized.”

In the spirit of dialectical progress, she now includes trigger warnings like:
⚠️ Caution: This article omits opposing viewpoints for your mental safety.

Marx wrote The German Ideology. Harvey wrote The Twitter Echo Chamber Manifesto. One used ink and fire. The other uses WordPress and an intern named Declan. But the lineage is clear. Marx had Engels. Josephine has Canva.

History repeats itself — first as tragedy, then as clickbait.