Fatuous stereotypes, anyone?
Agent Bob shows Alice incontrovertible proof that the Soviet Union, North Korea, East Germany, Red China, and the other Communist countries were/are really repressive places with bad living standards. She can’t deny the evidence and becomes a pro-Capitalist democrat, but then she becomes a more authoritarian capitalist … and then she comes back around to more democratic socialism…
Maybe even funnier:
Bob goes back in time to warn Karl Marx about the suffering and tyranny his Communist Manifesto will inspire some people to create. In order to prevent the atrocities of Stalin, Mao, and their ilk, Marx goes out of his way to write in all his Author Tracts that the proletariat’s uprising MUST be completely and utterly non-violent.
I have to admit, I almost feel guilty sharing this, as if I’m inviting everybody to make fun of some little kid’s doodles or scribbles. It’s too easy.
Well, I don’t know, maybe he’d give it some thought after hearing about all of those Whites and landlords and Kuomintang biting the dust early, y’know?
Seriously though, I’m not an avid Marx reader but judging from what I did read, he was far more interested in describing reality rather than prescribing it.
Absolutely, this the base things liberal and other rightoids never can get. Marx was not an utopist, and while he also worked hard in practice to realize socialism, he never spinned utopian visions for the far future, and he detested utopian socialist who did it, to the point of writing endless dunks including “Misère de la philosophie” which is probably one of the most thorough plowing of someone i ever read (i mean he even wrote it originally in French so that even the title itself is a dunk).