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Solzhenitsyn
If you're making a point of walking around in public with a copy of Gulag Archipelago (a work of fiction which was mocked by his wife), I'm likelier to assume you're some sort of Nazi than anything else.
solzhenitsyn was an actual proponent of bringing back the russian empire. also deeply antisemitic. the dude was a crackpot whose work bears no relation to reality. anyone who has read his deranged scrawlings and thinks he's some kind of reliable source is an actual moron.
anyone who has read his deranged scrawlings and thinks he’s some kind of reliable source is an actual moron.
Every liberal BTFO.
well, not every liberal since most of them don't even bother to read the shit they wave at us as "proof" of how evul marxism is. why read a whole book and have to actually critically think about something when you could just get told by a suit on the news/on the internet that the book agrees with your preconceived biases?
Having spent some time in East Germany when it was East Germany, I’ve seen the statues of Marx and Engels, but I have no soft spot for them. The best thing that came out of East Germany is Angela Merkel.
:agony-limitless: East Germans who say this shit should have their homes taken away and given to random people so that they get to feel like the rest of their (less privileged) countrymen.
"spent some time in East Germany when it was East Germany" usually means they're West Germans who used to visit relatives in the DDR.
Same solution applies, really. Make them go through what they did to East Germans during "reunification".
Note: this is a joke, no one should have their residence taken away like that. If it had happened to people like this, though, it may have taught them some perspective and empathy.
Grimes didn’t actually read the book and neither did these dweebs, out of all ideologies liberals are the ones most uncomfortable with anything that challenges their worldview or value system, not because they would agree with the criticism but cause they don’t understand their own ideology to understand the critique, which gives them identity anxiety
Me trying to read Capital and realizing that it's actually a hyper dry economic treatise probably helped me de-lib my brain.
edit: for context I was one of those capitalism understander who thinks that capitalism is when you trade, and that communist doesn't know what supply and demand is
Yeah, almost every time someone says "Marx failed to consider" something, it's in like Volume 1, Chapter 3 of Capital. :marx-joker:
New idea: crypto powered by gaming, but instead of doing it with computers we give people traveler's checks for playing board games.
Marx failed to consider that Max Stirner was made up by Engels as a prank to fuck with him.
Hexbear getting Engelspilled on Stirner is one of the best recent developments on here. :stirner-shocked:
That's probably covered in a letter from Engels somewhere. :engels-wut:
also Liberals aren't exposed to other ideologies much in their day to day life
Marx failed to consider that his prose was lacking.
The manifesto is designed specifically to be easily digestible, trying to say that you easily understand it as some kind of own is just really strange behaviour.
It's literally a pamphlet meant for "working men of all countries", many of which obviously didn't have access to the greatest educations.
Coming from someone who read a fuckload of Tolstoy in his younger years... it's not that smart. It's mostly a rich progressive feeling bad for being rich but not doing much.
Libs feel special and elite for reading one of a large set of novels.
They're not wrong. If she was actually informed about theory and not just play acting revolutionary thinking, she would probably be reading one of his actual more academic or historical critiques and not just the manifesto. That being said, the smoothbrains that read jezebel probably don't understand the manifesto or the context of the creation of manifesto and why it's not an academic styled work any more than grimes does, and any sort of critique is steeped in liberal ideology. As if getting an 'A' in a literature class really indicates a comprehensive understanding and critique of the material.
Tbf, Marx didn't think that we would be reading the manifesto as his sole work in the American Canon. This is really more on the editors and publishers heads.
Never ask:
A woman her age
A man his salary
Solzhenitsyn his opinion on jews
Even before that she was pretty terrible in retrospect. Didn't she randomly shout, "Free Tibet!" a bunch of times for no reason?
grimes enters her cringe era
She entered that when she married the muskrat
Graded by a high school baseball coach, who is also the social studies teacher for some reason.
What kind of “scathing take down” can you do of a protest in pamphlet form?
I'm imagining that they explained, using half-remembered Economics 101, why the demands of the protesters would be bad for the economy.
So many people read the Manifesto in high school and think that they are now “familiar with Marx.”
In fairness, they're more familiar with him than the kids who grew up never knowing the guy existed.
The Manifesto is a historical document, not a scientific one. It’s a polemic listing demands, and should be read in the context of the Revolutions of 1848, which made realizing those demands a possibility. What kind of “scathing take down” can you do of a protest in pamphlet form?
Presumably the same take-down you could write around The US Declaration of Independence or the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. You're taking a moral position opposed to the views and beliefs set out in the document and establishing why your position in stronger.
But that’s a very broad statement, and even a (hypothetical) cogent objection to these elements would not constitute a “take down of the whole thing.”
This person got an A and that means the person's views are superior to the document they refuted. Maybe if you write a document that refutes their document and you get an A, then you can claim you are right and they are wrong.
I dunno what it is but that second comment has Nathan Fielder energy; "I graduated from one of Canada's top business schools with really good grades"
It's got the seeds of a Marine Todd story. Professor made me read Marx. I proved him wrong in a single essay, aced the class, and everyone clapped.
