4/1/2021, 2:46 am
The People's Cube is 16 years old - but that's in Laika-the-Space-Dog years. Our researchers at the Karl Marx Treatment Center tell us that to a human - which describes most of our members - it is only one year. So we are pretty young still, and maybe that's also why we're a bit disoriented about current events.
On the one hand / forefoot / paw / flipper / tentacle we have much to celebrate - after all, the revolution we have been clamoring about has finally happened. On the other appendage, it doesn't look like the proletarian revolution Marx and Lenin told us about.
The toiling masses of workers and peasants have been swept aside and labeled as fascists, racists, and homophobes. They've become too comfortable with capitalism, clinging to their guns, religion, families, private property, and the Constitution. Instead, a new coalition of minorities has been created, indoctrinated into victimhood, and labeled as the new revolutionary classes. They are now the New Proletariat, which qualifies them as the elites. The Oppressed Elites.
According to Marx, a successful proletarian revolution must be followed by a proletarian dictatorship that will transform the society and fight off the resistance of the bourgeoisie. What we're living under today, however, is a dictatorship of the New Proletariat, who are oppressing by the Old Proletariat, while themselves maintaining the oppressed status. That has thrown the nation into a perpetual vortex of oppression which spins in a never-ending circle with no end in sight and no conceivable outcome that we used to call progress.
By definition, no circular movement can lead people to progress (except for masturbation, which seems to be the favorite pastime of our Oppressed Elites, from which they obtain their social skills and higher knowledge about the world).
Karl Marx was a white male economist in the 19th century Europe. To him, a socialist revolution followed by a dictatorship was necessary to improve the material well-being of the working classes. We can only wonder if he'd be happy or disappointed if he were to learn that the working classes of the 20th and now the 21st century would live better and have nicer things and entertainment options than the 19th century capitalists - and that it would happen without any revolution, dictatorship, or the killing fields.
According to old-fashioned logic, we should celebrate the fact that such progress could happen without a bloody mess of repressions, gulags, and ruined lives. If the goal has been achieved by other means, why not take pleasure in the results? Let the workers enjoy their material well-being and let the revolutionaries move on from organizing the masses to organizing their porn collections.
But that is not the logic of the Oppressed Elites. They are angry at such an outcome and they invent reasons why overall prosperity is bad for society, for the environment, and for the climate. They're set on transforming the world regardless of what the fat and stupid working classes want.
In the New Dialectical Materialism, the working classes have become the New Oppressors, and their lot is now being ruthlessly worsened by a Dictatorship of the New Proletariat, many of whom have come from the old bourgeoisie. Their goal is to make the world a better place by making it worse for everybody, everybody except themselves. Their ultimate objective is not so much peace and justice and economic improvement as it is personal orgasm through circular masturbation. If you dare oppose them, you will be called a hater and be destroyed. Your bravery will accomplish nothing except reinforce their oppressed status. The circle is complete. Orgasms ensue.
East is West, up is down, pro is anti, and vice versa. We, the old-school Marxists, feel extremely confused. That is why, instead of celebrating our anniversary, we will be anti-celebrating it behind Tractor Barn #2, trying to unconfuse ourselves with copious amounts of beet vodka, which has always been our reliable source of higher knowledge about the world, let alone social skills and revolutionary fervor.
All workers and peasants are invited. A confused look in the eyes is a plus. Bring your own hammers and sickles.
Mystery item No. 1
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