2010–2020

2010–2020

(Decade of Glorious Worldwide Revolt)

Karl Marx Is A Super Cool “Bro” And Totally Relevant For Today’s “Cell Phone” Crazy Youngster!

Karl Marx Is A Super Cool “Bro” And Totally Relevant For Today’s “Cell Phone” Crazy Youngster!

Karl Marx was a white European dude from the nineteenth century who drank too much and probably got the cleaning lady knocked up.

He was often in a very bad mood.

If we saw him on a TED talk of the present, we might ask, “Can’t that crusty old drunk break out a smile once in a while, or possibly a comb?” before switching to another speaker.

Perhaps one with tidier hair and a more optimistic topic than This Is How The World Went To Shit.

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Such was the unpleasant labor of a sometimes-unpleasant man: exploring the shit of the world in some detail.

This short book will not be a guide to the life of Marx, which may or may not have involved a weekend of banging a German cleaning lady called Helene.

It will be a basic introduction to the revolutionary project of sorting shit out, begun in earnest by Marx.

One that has enjoyed a recent revival.

You may have heard the old term “socialism” going around a bit lately.

You must have, otherwise you’d hardly have picked up a book that promises to explain Marx’s marvelous version of it.

I should tell you then, from the outset, that the Marx kind of “socialism,” which I’ll now stop putting in scare quotes, is largely a tool for understanding capitalism.

And capitalism is understood by the Marxist to negatively affect many parts of everyday life, not just the bits with money in it.

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Yes.

Not just the economy!

This news may be a relief for you, because it means we’ll discuss things a bit more thrilling than profit, commodities, and labor.

We will talk about a world in which we might all flourish.

We will even talk about our feelings.

Our feelings are not, when truly examined, unimportant when it comes to diagnosing all the disorders of capitalism.

And Marx was in the business of diagnosis.

It’s now up to us to find a cure, a task you may find, as I do, both thrilling and fucking exhausting.

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As we’ve seen over the latter half of the past decade, this socialism word can once again be used loudly and proudly.

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