Patches For the Masses

Out of work for so long you can’t afford new clothes? Obama cares!

As a token of President Obama's appreciation for all you've done for him, he wants you, the little people, to have these patches to sew up your rags.



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Communists have no class t-shirt.

http://www.snorgtees.com/t-shirts/commu ... e-no-class
 

Of course communists have no class! It is a classless society of classless people doing classless things! Hey, what's so funny?


 

They don't have class, but they do have class struggle and class enemies, aka enemies of the people. I know that this is hard for us little people to grasp. For short we can take the commentary of our betters, like Marx, who solved the riddle of History, and knew that the solution was right. Or like Herbert Marcuse, who solved the riddle of the riddle of History. And so on forever. Marx was so genial that he solved the riddle of History, whence he can't be wrong, no matter how many billions of us little people die. We unclog History and Evolution in the process. Marx turned History from storytelling, bards' domain, into an exact science.

In 1990 a class friend in Albania asked the professor of Marxism, "why is it that the class struggle is the principal engine of socialist progress? Why isn't it the second most important?" What did the professor answer? "If you read it carefully, it's explained very well in the book."
 

Communists with class





 

John Frum

In 1990 a class friend in Albania asked the professor of Marxism, "why is it that the class struggle is the principal engine of socialist progress? Why isn't it the second most important?" What did the professor answer? "If you read it carefully, it's explained very well in the book."

I always wondered about that. If History is inevitably marching toward communism then why does anybody even have to think about it? Here it comes. Nothing you can do. Why all the hoopla?

But I just figured I didn't get it because other people are a lot smarter than me.
 

Margaret - I heard one of your boyfriends works at the Karl Marx Treatment Center. Could you ask him to amend the original post with a transcript of what's written on the graphic, including the sidebar? It's so small I can't read. If he posts it as plain text, maybe I could then enhance the graphic a little.
 

Comrade Margaret, I don't have enough smarts, but I do I have taken enough Marxism classes to be in a position to answer this. I have taken Scientific Socialism I and II, Political Economy, History of the Party, Dialectic Materialism, and so on. Basically, Atheist Theology. And my first major was Math.

We do have to think about it, all the time, obsessively. And we have to struggle in the way of the Party, in order to hasten the arrival of People's Paradise and in order to hasten the evolution, which is basically the same thing. There's no syncretism whatsoever here, just you can't get it because you didn't take the Scientific Socialism class. (And I suspect because you are lumpenproletariat.) Class struggle forges us, as we forge the class struggle in a classless society. Through it we become the new man, Homo Sovieticus.

Margaret

John Frum

In 1990 a class friend in Albania asked the professor of Marxism, "why is it that the class struggle is the principal engine of socialist progress? Why isn't it the second most important?" What did the professor answer? "If you read it carefully, it's explained very well in the book."

I always wondered about that. If History is inevitably marching toward communism then why does anybody even have to think about it? Here it comes. Nothing you can do. Why all the hoopla?

But I just figured I didn't get it because other people are a lot smarter than me.
 

Oh, I thought History was a force within the stuff that matter is made of. Did History require all of the ancients to think about it all the time in order to bring about feudalism? And there's another thing I've wondered...

Since no one knew about the forces of History until Marx, can it be that Marx thus gave the enemies of Socialism the knowledge of History as a force and (dialectically speaking) the very means to destroy Communism. So, dialectically speaking, did Marx's work destroy communism?
 

There you go again, Comrade Margaret. You do need a lot of reeducation. Before Marx, History was marching in a sketchy path, like a drunkard, without much direction. Just the sum of all steps was towards its historic inevitability, but without much efficiency. If Spartacus knew Marxism, History would have been much, much more straightforward to the target.The forces of evil are already well endowed. Marx created class conscience and sense of purpose within the proletariat, as well as nicknames for everybody he didn't like, like lumpenproletariat.



I have realized that actually there was inconsistency between the two first titans of History as science. Comrade Marx believed in Comrade Malthus, whereas Comrade Engels denounced Comrade Malthus as reactionary. But then again, Comrade Marx was a full time History Scientist, whereas Comrade Engels did what he could with the leftover time from the management of his industrial plants. In other words, Comrade Engels was kinda pig imperialist.

In Europe there has been always a sense of class, all the way to ancient Romans. Roman nobles inbred themselves to extinction. Same with the landowners in the Middle Ages, just they were a wider group of people, therefore would take longer to inbreed themselves to extinction. Same with the upper class of European pig kapitalists. This gave Marx the idea of a proletariat class, class conscience, and so on. It actually was defined more from the rejection of the others than by an inner reflection of self-purpose. An European thing.

And sending people to the gulag was more about fulfilling the 5-year plan of chrome extraction than it was about installing korrekt thoughts in people's minds. Comrade the chief policeman of the rayon was told that if he didn't fulfill the plan of kulaks, there was a spare pickaxe for him in the chrome mine.



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Margaret

Oh, I thought History was a force within the stuff that matter is made of. Did History require all of the ancients to think about it all the time in order to bring about feudalism? And there's another thing I've wondered...

Since no one knew about the forces of History until Marx, can it be that Marx thus gave the enemies of Socialism the knowledge of History as a force and (dialectically speaking) the very means to destroy Communism. So, dialectically speaking, did Marx's work destroy communism?
 

John Frum

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I promise to pay you Next Tuesday for the Future of Communism today.

I wonder how many on the left take Marx's idea of history with a capital H seriously? Seems to me talking about it in mixed company would make most adults laugh out loud.