For Rheinland-Pfalz and surrounding cities, Karl Marx's birthday bash brings in a lot of tourists. Under the GDR, the city Chemnitz was renamed to Karl-Marx-Stadt. Cities like this are expected to make large profits selling Marx themed merchandise. Karl Marx cups, Karl Marx traffic lights, even Karl Marx rubber ducks.
Many believe that this is tarnishing Marx's memory. Any true communist would not give one cent to an event like this. Real communists should try to harass the markets and provide free Marx themed memorabilia. Xi Jinping, on the other hands, has held a proper celebration for Marx's birthday.
You are right, leftwing orgs in the UK are giving free talks on him atm. Paul Mason is also doing the rounds in the media talking about him too.
Sebastian Johnson
Least people are doing something.
Wyatt Powell
On one hand it's always fun to see someone butthurt over something like this, but one the other, it's pretty bizarre how occupied Germanistan has guts to make fun of anything but themselves
People have been buying plants to burn for creating mini gas chambers in their cars on Hitler's birthday for years. I reckon it had to come sooner or later for the Marxists.
Fuck it if i ever went to trier id buy a Marx mug or some shit REMEMBER! No. Such. Thing. As. Ethical. Consumption. Under. Capitalism!.
Julian Evans
I would buy that zero euro bill, fuck off with your no true scottsman, especially if you claim Xi is a thru gommie
Evan Peterson
youre a fuckin retard
Thomas Rivera
There is nothing "uncommunist" about buying stuff. Being a communist is not about not buying shit. And Xi is the biggest capitalist there is.
Lucas Green
its not about buying shit you retard its about not fuckin propagating this slime with your measly wage, its an insult to their efforts and memory uhh, i havent defended xi or whatever? Nice assumption though, retard
Jack Collins
Hehe cute Karl Marx ducks…..
Parker Turner
Paul "halp-we-need-to-stop-the-Cyberstalinists!!" Mason? No thanks, I'll rather buy some Marxduckies. More general point: I don't think it's bad to have Marx on shirts and other merch and sell that for money. I think what's far worse is when self-styled radical writers put their stuff behind a paywall. And I don't just mean articles, but also books. It's okay when the dead-tree version has a price, but you should definitely put online a free version. How can you call yourself a radical writer if you lock out poor people so they can't read your words?
Luis Allen
Pls sell weapons to facsist then.
Oliver Turner
Paul Mason is a cybernetistrist what are you talking boutĺ
Liam Rivera
Why would you buy it tho To hang it on the wall and take selfies with it to show how more communist you are than others
I've been to Trier and the reason why they did this is because Chinese tourists liked that shit. This is also why they gave them the statue. Marx himself isn't very popular there, it's a conservative city.
Why? The fact that this exists is a literal validation of Marx's theories, the only irony is that rightists can look at proof that Marx was right and treat it like some kind of "gotcha" for leftists.
Blake Young
Paul Mason is retarded. From Chapter 8 of Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (2015): (…) (…) WHAT ABOUT THE SINGLE-MUM SEX WORKER WHO GOT THREE JOBS SO SHE CAN PAY BACK THE COMPOUND INTEREST ON HER DEBT, EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT, YOU COMPUTERNAZIS?!
At least the conservative politicians in Trier are pragmatic about it, unlike the butthurt liberals.
Owen Gutierrez
I thought Paul Mason was a wine maker who put drunk Oroson Welles in his comercials
Grayson Anderson
I'm not really a fan of Cockshott but I almost want to apologize to Zig Forums posters for this, because this is by far the dumbest thing I've read in over a year.
It's just straight up worshipping debt slavery for the sheer fact that it exists and therefore it should continue to exist. Holy shit
Aiden Hill
Are we sure this isn't praising Cockshott?
Jack Martinez
Holy shit Paul Mason is a fucking moron. Ah yes, what socialism really needs is a financial sector! I legit don't understand the argument he's trying to make. This sounds fucking excellent to me.
Ryder Thompson
This is seriously so bad that I had to check to see if Paul Mason wasn't secretly an amerifat or something.
Josiah Gutierrez
Why is porky so afraid of cyber stalinism? We are already half way to cyber (ancap) stalinism and they don't seem to mind that at all.
This is seriously one of the worst arguments against any form of socialism ever made.
Brayden Thomas
Why not? If people want that kind of shit, Beyonce will be able to provide it to them. She just won't be making inordinate amounts of money off it. The argument doesn't even work on its own grounds.
Cooper Kelly
Our "retreat from complexity" is simply that we want to make the distribution of resources fair and predictable. That our labor goes into things we want them to go into.
Our "return to hierarchy" is simply that we want to impose equality on society. We want to return to imposing a hierarchy alright, a close to completely horizontal hierarchy.
These are good things.
John Bennett
I would hardly call that dope.
Jayden Collins
Holy shit what a fucking idiot. Getting rid of sex work, precarity and having to work three jobs to support oneself are among the greatest benefits of socialism. Modern financial complexity is basically just capitalism slowly divorcing itself from material reality and absolutely should be done away with. Clarity and transparancy as a basis of rational economic decision making should obviously be superior to the gobbledigook of modern finance.
It's like he's listing things that suck balls and then complain that we want to get rid of them
Jackson Gomez
Don't you see; entertainment industry lumpenbourgeois millionairs are REALLY EXISTING SOCIALISM GANG GANG GANG
Adrian King
Read the first letter in every line.
John Garcia
I don't know whether to find it hilarious or depressing that no one noticed for more than a week. Post was good bait then regardless.
