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Mon Apr-25-11 01:47 PM
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Poll question: Which work by Karl Marx would make for a blockbuster movie? |
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Mon Apr-25-11 01:59 PM
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Mon Apr-25-11 02:11 PM
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2. No, I'd already chosen that title for my biographical movie about Charlemagne in the British Raj |
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Mon Apr-25-11 03:26 PM
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3. Gotta be Hegel getting his comeuppance! |
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Mon Apr-25-11 03:44 PM
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5. The Manifesto: Part Deux...This Time It's Proletarian |
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Mon Apr-25-11 04:57 PM
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6. The Hunt for Red Inscriber |
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Mon Apr-25-11 07:51 PM
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very few authors I have ever read could put me to sleep faster than Marx |
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Mon Apr-25-11 07:51 PM
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7. very few authors I have ever read could put me to sleep faster than Marx |
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Mon Apr-25-11 08:29 PM
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8. A lot of it is commentary on the politics a century and a half ago, with great sprinklings of snark |
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Here, from "The Bill for the Abolition of Feudal Burdens" --
"... it appears at first sight that our Minister of Agriculture ... makes a tremendous 'bold stroke' .. abolishing whole medieval situation with a penstroke ... Enough of this! The Minister recognizes fully and generally that feudal burdens may be abolished only in return for compensation. So the most oppressive, widespread, and important burdens remain in place; or .. in view of the fact that the peasants had already gotten rid of them, they are restored ... A spectacular list of insignificant, regionally limited feudal burdens are .. abolished, and the main feudal burden ... compulsory labor services, is restored. With the abolition of all the rights listed above, the nobility sacrifices less than 50 000 thalers a year, but thereby saves many millions ..."
-- and so on for six or seven pages
It's sorta like reading the DUzies a century and a half from now in 2150
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Mon Apr-25-11 11:09 PM
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Mon Apr-25-11 11:47 PM
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11. I'd be on the edge of my seat, waiting to see what happened next, if I were you, |
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but I guess that's why I'm not you
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Mon Apr-25-11 11:44 PM
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10. Dude, where's my surplus labor? n/t |
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Tue Apr-26-11 11:45 AM
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Tue Apr-26-11 12:21 PM
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13. I've actually read "The Civil War in France." It's not a bad narrative story. |
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Obviously you'd have to switch the villain & hero roles.
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