“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.”

I’m not sure predicting economic conflict in the 19th Century, where there was already widespread labor activity, makes one Nostradamus. And I think Marx’s analysis of the conflict, which focuses on class rather than wealth, has only looked more suspect as time goes on. In Marx’s reasoning, a millionaire NBA player or …

I disagree. I don’t agree with the ideology, but this (from the Communist Manifesto) is terrific writing:

Because he’s not, really.

Honestly? These days Marxists are just as privileged as the people they hate. They just happen to have chosen the wrong college major, and they’re trying to forcibly redistribute the paychecks of their former peers who now have good jobs.

she seems to be proof someone can be classist without even knowing why, how, or what it means.

I struggled through bits and pieces of Marx’s Grundrisse back in college, and I agree. He’s harder to slog through than Hegel.

Welcome to the Hotel Sovietskaya.

It’s almost like celebs who don’t know what they’re talking about should REALLY shut the fuck up about it. Or, y’know, learn.

She’s dumb.

Reminds me of how Engels once explained that Marx, contemptuous of how others whose views he loathed had started referring to themselves as Marxists, declared to Engels “[C]e qu’il y a de certain c’est que moi, je ne suis pas marxiste” (“what is certain is that [if they are Marxists], [then] I myself am not a…

Oh that’s easy. In capitalism, man exploits man. In communism, it’s the other way around. (old Soviet joke)

Last night, musician Grimes posted a nonsensical “proposition for the communists” on TikTok. In it, she rambled on about how the widespread implementation of artificial intelligence can be utilized to quickly get the world to a state of communism, where “no one has to work,” corruption ceases to exist, and equality…

D&D are “cool moment” writers, when left to their own devices. Logical setup and consequences are not things they let get in the way of those.

Agree. I even like the concept of the WW threat being dispatched before the human scaled drama about the Throne has been completely settled. But the show is so hamfisted in its design and execution of that.

his transformation into a sandworm hybrid using spice melange would really have been something to see. 

On the other hand, it was called Game of “Thrones,” not “Game of Zombies”, and so it was very clear from the first moments (even though those featured the White Walkers) that the political boss would always be the end boss.

Once while I was listening a woman called in and Dr. Drew was like, "Let me ask you, were you sexually abused growing up?" and she repeatedly said she was not. He straight up said, "I don't believe you." OKAY DUDE.

You are amazing. Thank you so much

Oh for fucks sake! I used to listen to Loveline years back when I was in high school, and even then before I had any kind of sexual experience I could tell Dr. Drew was absolutely full of shit. This was his answer to everything. Every single time a woman would call in and mention a kink or a hang-up or a preference…