Sunday, April 29, 2018

I hope you all fail this test ;)

"social issues literacy quiz for millennials"

doubleplusgood unthink

"In order to connect with the masses, we have to be humble enough to accept that Karl Marx was just a sore loser consumed with envy and greed, and so he reinterpreted human history to fit his personal pet peeves. We have to be open-minded enough to affirm that [Marx's] theory of class consciousness is sheer lunacy that has nothing to do with reality. Furthermore, if we want to free the toiling masses from the chains of capitalist oppression, we have to be unpretentious enough to admit that "class struggle" is a silly conspiracy theory and that "scientific communism" is an elaborate fairy tale concocted by Engels to assuage his guilt at being a successful capitalist entrepreneur."

Read it all at People's Cube