I'd wage my life savings on the fact that if this nerd read a book, it was by someone who claims to have read Marx (but never really did) and disproves his theories based on vibes
as a former turbo lib, I sincerely believe they looked at the words with their eyes, but never actually engaged with the text.
The first time I read Marx as a teenager hopped up on Western liberal triumphalism, I treated Capital like Mein Kampf and was prepared to scoff at every paragraph, but Marx writes such turgid fucking sentences that I gave up after a couple pages because I couldn't understand what he was saying well enough to get my rocks off.
I'd wage my life savings on the fact that if this nerd read a book, it was by someone who claims to have read Marx (but never really did) and disproves his theories based on vibes
as a former turbo lib, I sincerely believe they looked at the words with their eyes, but never actually engaged with the text.
The first time I read Marx as a teenager hopped up on Western liberal triumphalism, I treated Capital like Mein Kampf and was prepared to scoff at every paragraph, but Marx writes such turgid fucking sentences that I gave up after a couple pages because I couldn't understand what he was saying well enough to get my rocks off.