She came home at the start of the pandemic, toting, among her other possessions, “The Marx-Engels Reader.” For Christmas last year, she gave everyone in the family a copy of “The Communist Manifesto” — ordered from Amazon with unintentional irony.
Everyone was excited but me, and they would have all cracked them open and started reading right there under the Christmas tree had I not distracted them by presenting everyone with holiday gnome socks.
"everyone was excited to learn something new until i distracted them with treats. this proves capitalism is superior!"
If all else fails, I’ll take them shopping.
capitalist bootlickers' ideology is so separated from actual capitalists' ideology. It's literally just "everything is okay because you can buy treatos" vs "how can i make the most money without giving a shit about my workers?"
Author's daughter, if you happen to be reading this... give them a copy of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific instead. I think it's a little bit better than the manifesto for explaining things to people not familiar with communism. Also simply by not being the manifesto it short-circuits the automatic reaction Americans have to anything with the word "communist" in it.
It wouldn't work because this is either by Marx or has communism in the title but I found Marxs Value, Price, Profit is a good intro and Bukharins (regardless of what you think of him lol) ABC of Communism was able to get Russian serfs up to speed on theory.
DAE ironic socialism amazon??? :very-intelligent: iphone venezuela???
"everyone was excited to learn something new until i distracted them with treats. this proves capitalism is superior!"
capitalist bootlickers' ideology is so separated from actual capitalists' ideology. It's literally just "everything is okay because you can buy treatos" vs "how can i make the most money without giving a shit about my workers?"
Author's daughter, if you happen to be reading this... give them a copy of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific instead. I think it's a little bit better than the manifesto for explaining things to people not familiar with communism. Also simply by not being the manifesto it short-circuits the automatic reaction Americans have to anything with the word "communist" in it.
It wouldn't work because this is either by Marx or has communism in the title but I found Marxs Value, Price, Profit is a good intro and Bukharins (regardless of what you think of him lol) ABC of Communism was able to get Russian serfs up to speed on theory.
Communism is when no shopping
Based, fuck shopping.
as someone who loves treatos and is rather well off, treatos get old fast. Eventually you just desire time off work to enjoy said treatos.
:maybe-later-kiddo: