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As opposed to you, who definitely doesn't roleplay being the "smartest one in the room" and speak in condescending generalizations about a large group of political others. Never ever.
If you are still seriously reading communist theory beyond the age of 20, I've got some truly terrible news for you. You should probably stay out of rooms altogether before anyone puts it together for you.
So what big boy books do you like to read, then? Give us your top recommendations.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Harry Potter, Turner Diaries
Hot take: I thought 1984 was somewhat alright, but I haven't read it in a while.
I liked it, but it's not really a book I think "says a lot about society" or whatever, which it is to a lot of libs
I think it does say a lot about society, but about capitalist society as opposed to the USSR which it was trying to criticize. It's a masterwork of projection.
Ultimate liberal
I agree. It's just a solid work of fiction. I think a lot of people probably actually haven't read it or don't really think about the story deeper. A lot of people don't seem to read much.
Lib take
I'm packing my bags for the gulag for a bit.
Read that one Isaac Asimov review of it, it’s hilarious. Here I’ll pull it up https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm
We all know you're using that isle of man flag as a coward's version of the afrikaner flag. You're so god damn bad at this.
Yeah, that had me raising my eyebrows too
I'd like to call it the Brakpan swastika, but that's harsh on Brakpan.
Seems I have to narc on all my professors, postdocs and PhDs, they all read Marx.
So which one is it: round up all the intellectuals and cast them out to carry out farm labour, or let them sit in their ivory tower and read theory?
Your point was "No adult reads Marx!", which I disproved readily with people of status and learned people that do.
The funny thing is that one of the professors does actually carry out farm labour, as they are involved in international brigades and works for 30 years for food security with sustainable practices in precarious countries. Did quite a bit of their study in AES countries, too.
I would start with casting you out to do farm labour (which you seem so into) and also having to read/discuss various things, too.
round up the "Passiv income Class defending" intellectuals and cast them out to carry out farm labou AND let them read theory?
no reply .. tssk ... typical .. currently probably franticlly searching for something online he can repeat ...
Which Marxist texts have you read, and can you summarize any Marxist ideas without plagiarizing wikipedia?
There's this reactionary trope that Communism is just something teenagers who have never had real jobs are into, that somehow the basement-dwelling children of 1st world small business owners are able to easily blaze through all The Manifesto, Grundrisse, Anti-Duhring, German ideology, All 3 volumes of Das Kapital, All 3 volumes of Theories of Surplus Value, etc. etc. etc. before they're old enough to drink, and then after getting an associates degree abandon it because they learned to adult... it's patently absurd. If anything the type of people in question don't even begin to question Capitalism until they're well into their 20s and sufficiently addled with student loan debt and long hours and a bleaker future than their parents.
Okay, explain how the following mathematical formula that's used to examine the rate of profits of a company, which tends to fall, is invalid and shouldn't be studied
This is you forgetting that there are actually theoretical texts and not just agitprop like the Manifesto, right?
What a silly statement! It is so ridiculous that it doesn’t even deserve a rebuttal
Yes who would ever want to study the leaders of succesful revolutions? Why should we want to learn from those that managed to fight off the capitalists?
Also that sectarianism is probably working super well for you. Great way to build a mass movement.
You're just parroting the most basic of chud clichés, but I guess that shouldn't be surprising when you're petite bourgeoisie
P... puts what together?
that's right, I only read liberal theory. Slava Hogwarti!