Need a crisp elucidation of Marxs ideas

Thanks

The Communist Manifesto is not difficult to read. After that if you still feel you need to know more Google "Marxist critical theory" and you'll find an infinity of tenured academics churning and reselling somebody else's idea.

You type like a braindead moron.

The best take is that Marx was actually libertarian

And the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is a theory about how profit in an industry is determined by the amount of organic constant capital in it. This is empirically true, btw, as are the other theories. He furthermore posits that organic constant capital generally increases over time as labor and efficiency saving technology is discovered and widely adopted due to competition. As the costs for capital increase relative to surplus value, so does the rate of profit go down over time. This is a big driver of instability as money capital seeks out riskier and riskier investments to get the same returns it used to.

L fucking mao

526. The argument between socialism and capitalism comes down to this: to those who, when left to their own devices, naturally rise above the mean, and to those who fall below. The former will be proponents of capitalism, the latter of socialism. The former are talented and hard-working, the latter talentless and lazy. And all this is proved by the failure of socialism, and in particular that of communism: its ultimate manifestation — as if a group of habitual losers at the individual level would be able to create, by pooling together all their weaknesses and failures, a winning combination!
But it is plain that, as they lose on the individual level — as individuals — they will ultimately lose on the group level too. The only reason they temporarily succeeded at a few points in history is because they were facing even greater losers: a complacent and degenerate aristocracy.

I mention contending economic theories, you should also try to read capital eventually. That is the bulk of his economic work. Maybe read wage labor and profit first. All this stuff is online btw

When is this initial state of universal equality established?

Complaining about one's lot in life is just another cop out.