HENRIETTA MARX: where do you think you’re going
KARL MARX: to my room
to write more poems for Jenny von Westphalen
HENRIETTA MARX: well while you’re up there
you might as well clean the room if you’re going to be doing poems in it
KARL MARX: i’ll do it LATER
HENRIETTA MARX: i left the cleaning supplies outside your door
you’ll do it now
KARL MARX: wow mom
it’s the MEANS of production
not the CRUELS of production
Nothing of note depends on the cleanliness of my room.
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They do realize the man was exiled from his home country and under surveillance by multiple state secret police
Have to wonder which historical figure, that either libs or conservatives fawn over, was the messiest bitch.
I thought this had to be fake, but nope. https://catalyst.independent.org/2024/04/30/karl-marx-needed-jordan-peterson/
He was lazy but greedy, always begging for money from family and friends who feared for his happiness and sanity.
lol
He was so self-centered one wonders if he was on the spectrum.
Nice ableism, fuck off.
Who are Catalyst and the Independent Institute behind it, you ask? Answer: a ”libertarian think tank” that has taken money from Koch (of course), published climate change denialism, and once ran an anti-antitrust ad in the Washington Post and New York Times that was sponsored by Microsoft.
Marx wrote a bunch of books about how to make a communist utopia, but he didn’t consider one thing: human nature
I am going to become the Joker
We’re all Jonklers down here, sweaty.
Cleaning your room is hard. There’s a part of my room where dust accumulates and I don’t want to use my vacuum all the time.
Clean rooms are bourgeois.
Why is the room getting dirty?
Maybe one can have some control over the means or forces of dirt production?^^I’ve not read Marx, so this is may just be world salad based on my understanding from random vids n short articles^^
Tho, I do think that if the dust accumulation is serious, the specific reason should be found out.
Unionize the dust bunnies and shorten their quotas!
tbqh the entire concept is kind of ableist. like unironically. people with adhd or various forms of neurodivergency find it much harder to focus on repetitive daily tasks like cleanliness than abstract, constantly important-feeling matters like the state of the world. and in many ways changing the world makes it literally easier for those people to clean their room. (fixing med shortage for adhd people = more adhd people cleaning their rooms)
It used to be that reading the work of someone before you criticized them was considered a requirement. Now anybody can become an anti-Marxist without reading a single word he wrote.
Meanwhile, the dweebs who follow Peterson will of course insist that you read every word he ever wrote and watch his 2700 hours of youtube content before you’re allowed to express any opinion on their doctor daddy.
It’s very convenient.
He didn’t consider human nature. $1 million for this keen insight, please.
This reminded me of his debate with Zizek. He couldn’t be assed to do more than skim the Manifesto to critique Marx
This phenomenon, I think, is due to a campaign of obfuscation and a continual attack on the meaning and substance behind these things.
These concrete terms and concepts have been reduced to vague inclinations and undefined and fundamentally nebulous and ungraspable phenomena. Instead of critiquing solid beliefs and ideas accompanied by a rigorous body of academic work, you are now critiquing and defending a “feeling”. A constant, all-encompassing and omnipresent feeling, but a feeling nonetheless. And arguments about feelings don’t have anything to do with academics. All you have to do is argue from some inherent, innate knowledge that you know you must possess because doing the reading is too much work, even as you spend hours a day posting screeds about Chinese cum machines on twitter. This is why debate has been reduced to such an uneducated joke that it can scarcely still be called debate. “Marxism” and “capitalism” - these terms have been robbed of their meaning and therefore any debate can only be devoid of intellectual vigor. How many anticommunist can name a single Marxist concept and form a coherent critique? You’d be hard pressed to find one that doesn’t just go on a meaningless tirade about 1984. This is the result of decades of American anti-intellectualism. Now we have to live in a world where the aesthetics of intellectual meaning are still there but the thing itself is dead.
Obviously, meaningful discussions occur every day. But about Marxism and in a mainstream setting? Forget about it.
I mean, that’s the work of propaganda. An anticommunist hardly knows what they stand against; and yet they will attack communism, even without knowledge of its terms, inner workings and intellectual history. I agree with you, but I think this phenomenon refers more broadly to the effects of anticommunist propaganda on the peoples of Earth, rather than only the American people. Anti-intelectualism in only part of it. The Americans were only more brutally affected by it, being at the seat of the Empire and all.
Not really arguing anything; I guess I just wanted to rant for a bit.
Idk, I can only read the word linen so many times before it starts to not seem like a real word and the rest of my language comprehension starts to degrade from there.
look ive made 100 winter coats and it took totally different amounts of linen every time I did it. Now I have all these coats and I don’t think I learned theory at all.
Marx failed to consider this
The idea that there is, out there in the world, one motherfucker dumb enough to read this and take it seriously is enough to make me wanna go back in time and pulverize the first human ancestor to crawl out of the sea
JP is literally the stereotypical dilettante that he says is miserable in his book. It’s probably why he is so familiar with the topic, it’s a self help book for himself. If you have ever seen any of his live streams, the man literally keeps a dirty office.
That said, all JP has inspired is school shootings and pressuring for sex, he is no comparison to the man around whom both the 20th and 21st century revolves.
JBP’s gonna take this so strongly that he’s gonna invent time travel just to fulfill it. Watch!
Dear Friedrich,
Today a strange Canadian man appeared in my apartment and started berating me in broken German about the messy state of my rooms. I drove him away with a few stout blows from a fireplace poker which I had recently retrieved from the pawn shop.
Yours,
Karl
PS: send more money I’m broke again lol
Yeah, I’m gonna take Benzo Kermit’s advice
Hey Jordan
Have you fixed the world yet? No? Cleaned your room yet? No?
Then fuck off and stop telling a real political scientist who actually inspired revolutions and actually changed the world how to do his job.
Marx literally inspired the Soviets, who in turn got the first human into space. He fucking changed the world and you aren’t worth the shit on his boots.
To be fair, it’s some random tabloid author not Peterson himself
Jordans only interested in cleaning his living room… oh sorry, Lebensraum 😱
Ya but have you considered that Marx’s socks were dirty?
