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.
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.
Yeah the guy who explicitly criticized unconditional nonviolence as capitulation to the ruling class and wrote “We shall have no excuses for the terror” suddenly wrote something like that. Uh huh.
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.
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).
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.
Tell me you have not read Marx without blah blah
Seriously, Marx would have probably laughed him out of the room or something. Marx understood that violence had to be used in order for the proletariat to rise up and defend itself. Do they really think Marx was some sort of utopian pacifist or something?
Love TV tropes as a concept, but the sheer amount of liberalism emanating from it always poisons me away.
I mainly just go there for time to time just because I feel like it, but damn, this is an example of why I avoid the more political aspects of TvTropes, especially if they’re covering the commies.
I still have no idea what tv tropes is
Those are most likely written by the audience not so far from the Wikipedia writers, but wilder and less controlled. It’s kinda weird things are not even WORSE there compared to Wikipedia.
