For a really long time I've had this idea for a twitter account called something like @MarxorSmith where I'd put up a quote like this one and ask people to guess whether Adam Smith or Karl Marx said it.
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
Yep, it's a dumb meme page and these dorks don't have any understanding of any of this shit beyond the fact that neolibs are the "winning team" and thus you can be a smug dipshit without actually knowing anything.
You can tell none of them have ever read The Wealth of Nations, because they would've labelled Smith a dirty commie for some of his takes.
Adam Smith was a proto-Maoist in the landlord question :mao-shining:
Asking the LQ
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For a really long time I've had this idea for a twitter account called something like @MarxorSmith where I'd put up a quote like this one and ask people to guess whether Adam Smith or Karl Marx said it.
Dewit
also this lol
Adam Smith:
r/Neoliberal:
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Yep, it's a dumb meme page and these dorks don't have any understanding of any of this shit beyond the fact that neolibs are the "winning team" and thus you can be a smug dipshit without actually knowing anything.
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Landlords often pay the city council to like them.
Mine is pretty cool, lets me pay rent whenever i want and since lockdown they have been consistently asking if i need help financially
Ahh, the elusive non-sociopathic landlord!
Over the years i have observed that their niceness is inversely proportional to the amount of property they own
Yeah this lol
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