The Spark

the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist

“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx

A Picture of Capitalism

Nov 24, 2025

An unidentified investor just paid the highest price ever to buy a work of modern art, forking over 236 million dollars at a Sotheby’s auction for a World War I era portrait by the painter Gustav Klimt. The prior owner was an heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune. A painting by Frida Kahlo sold for almost 55 million dollars, the highest ever paid for a work by a woman or Latin American artist.

Rich bosses tell workers they have no money for our wages and benefits. But they have money for what they want: speculative investments.