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Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
You tell me.

Can the proletariat break its bonds and seize the means of production?

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fuccboi
Jan 5, 2004

by zen death robot
There is no proletariat and there never will be. Every man wishes to ball out of control.

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

It's not, op.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



Karl Marx is dead; ergo, Marxism is dead. Seems pretty simple....?

murphyslaw
Feb 16, 2007
It never fails
In a technical sense, probably. Then you have the 3000 splinter ideologies and schools of thinking that are alive and well.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

You tell me.

Can the proletariat break its bonds and seize the means of production?

No, probably not.

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



It is now

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer
have you guys seen that movie with Bruce Willis, the sixth sense? It's kinda like that.

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



Id say more like the wickerman with nicolas cage

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003






You murderer.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Cat Face Joe posted:

Id say more like the wickerman with nicolas cage

So a bunch of proles do drugs drink mead then set fire to a wooden man representing capitalism with the bourgeois locked inside?

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



IOwnCalculus posted:

You murderer.

Capatilism wins again

Huge Liability
Mar 2, 2010
So long as I live, Marxism cannot die.

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

So a bunch of proles do drugs drink mead then set fire to a wooden man representing capitalism with the bourgeois locked inside?

No Our Boy Nic is Marxism and the wickerman represents the free market

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


theres a reason they keep lenin on ice

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

theres a reason they keep lenin on ice

Duh, how else do you keep the vodka cold.

I mean aside from shoving the bottle in Ayn Rand's snatch.

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

i think that if marxism can survive lf closing, it can survive anything

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
marxism live on in hearts of grate people of proletareat

hail stalin

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Not in MY community rec center on every other Wednesday between 8 and 9 pm it's not

ReV VAdAUL
Oct 3, 2004

I'm WILD about
WILDMAN
Obama is president so it seems to be doing pretty well?

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Looking at the number of newspapers i sold last month i'd say it's growing stronger than ever.

Jerry Manderbilt
May 31, 2012

No matter how much paperwork I process, it never goes away. It only increases.

Mans posted:

Looking at the number of newspapers i sold last month i'd say it's growing stronger than ever.

Yeah well you're a filthy European socialist.

Rogue0071
Dec 8, 2009

Grey Hunter's next target.

Vermain posted:

Karl Marx is dead; ergo, Marxism is dead. Seems pretty simple....?

Ahem.

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Mans posted:

Looking at the number of newspapers i sold last month i'd say it's growing stronger than ever.

What kind of handcrank letterpress do you use?

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?

Yeah well theres a cardinal in Germany called Marx and even a cemetery in Vienna called "Saint Marx" so in conclusion Marxism will never die imo.

zakharov
Nov 30, 2002

:kimchi: Tater Love :kimchi:
More like the BROletariat *chugs beer*

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
I'd say its going stronger than ever.

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus



Looks good to me

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
Marxism is dead, and is now a spectre, :ghost: ~woooo~

Arkane
Dec 19, 2006

by R. Guyovich
Marxism had a good run earlier this year when everybody was obsessed about Piketty for about two or three days.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Arkane posted:

Marxism had a good run earlier this year when everybody was obsessed about Piketty for about two or three days.

piketty's about as marxist as barack obama


which means very

Arkane
Dec 19, 2006

by R. Guyovich
If North Korea's biotech researchers cure cancer or Venezuela's space program builds a moon base, Marxism could turn the corner. Something to keep your eye on.

Those countries have got some big stuff brewing I feel like -- that could really put Marxism back on the map.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


ded posted:




Looks good to me

It's beautiful.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


If the Soviet Union produces the first satellite or sends a man into space, Marxism could turn the corner. Something to keep your eye on.

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


If it is, Obama will fix it

Xmas Dumpster Fire
May 29, 2001

Obama is the worst marxist ever.

Hob_Gadling
Jul 6, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Grimey Drawer
Technically yes, but in practice the zombie of Marxism-Leninism lurches forward every time someone tries to create a viable movement for workers. This changes the situation from political movement to disaster management. When the undead has been laid to rest, workers are usually slightly worse off than they were before the catastrophe struck.

Untagged
Mar 29, 2004

Hey, does your planet have wiper fluid yet or you gonna freak out and start worshiping us?
I told a pro marxist socialist pinko communist loving professor in college it would never work because the world will always be unfair and nothing could ever be equal. She said that's not true and spouted a bunch of bullshit about equality and distribution and wealth. I told her that was all well and good but it all goes right out the window when the guy next door has a hotter wife than you and suddenly competition jealousy and greed appear in your perfect utopia. She :psyboom: and left the room crying. Sorry babe.

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/HAPPIDROME-Part-One

quote:

Murray Bookchin was born in New York in 1921. In the 1930s he joined the American Communist Party. But after the second world war he began to question the whole theory that underpinned revolutionary marxism.

What changed everything for him was the experience of working in a factory. Bookchin had gone to work for General Motors - and he realized as he watched his fellow workers that Marx, Lenin and all the other theorists were wrong about the working class.

The Marxist theory said that once working men and women came together in factories the scales would fall from their eyes - and they would see clearly how they were being oppressed. They would also see how they could bond together to become a powerful force that would overthrow the capitalists.

Bookchin saw that the very opposite was happening. This was because the factory was organised as a hierarchy - a system of organisation and control that the workers lived with and experienced every second of the day. As they did so, that hierarchical system became firmly embedded in their minds - and made them more passive and more accepting of their oppression.

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Farecoal
Oct 15, 2011

There he go

Untagged posted:

I told a pro marxist socialist pinko communist loving professor in college it would never work because the world will always be unfair and nothing could ever be equal. She said that's not true and spouted a bunch of bullshit about equality and distribution and wealth. I told her that was all well and good but it all goes right out the window when the guy next door has a hotter wife than you and suddenly competition jealousy and greed appear in your perfect utopia. She :psyboom: and left the room crying. Sorry babe.

and that you was albert einstein

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