Karl Marx on how England can win the European Championships
There has been suggestion that in taking the knee in the European Championships England players are somehow Marxists. This seems to me unlikely. Marx after all argued that material being determines consciousness and no England player is short of a bob or two in 2021.
Even so Marx did forsee the way England could win the Euros. Addressing the Hague Congress of the First International on 8th September 1872 he noted:
let us think of the basic principle of the International: Solidarity. Only when we have established this life-giving principle on a sound basis among the numerous workers of all countries will we attain the great final goal which we have set ourselves.
In other words keep on taking the knee and offering solidarity against injustice and victory could be Englands.
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