posted May 05, 2018 09:03 AM            

Yes, the bumbling, bungling, brain dead 5th rate thinker from the 19th Century would be 200 today...May Day, May 5th.

The Marxist Messiah, Obama is observing a day of study, fasting and prayer in honor of his icon, Karl Marx, curled up with his copy of The Communist Manifesto.

May 5, 2018
Karl Marx at 200: His Lethal Legacy Lingers
Edward Hudgins

In his name, over 100 million people were murdered. May 5, 2018 marks Karl Marx's 200th birthday, and his profound errors still smolder and threaten new conflagrations.............
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/karl_marx_at_200_his_lethal_legacy_lingers.html

posted May 06, 2018 12:57 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Michael Moore was praising him.

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Moore is exactly the kind of brain dead moron who would praise Marx.

Others though have it right about Marx and Marxism.

"But Marxist dialectic was never about logic. It’s about anti-logic: the kind, you might almost say, that collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. It’s about ignoring the obvious truth, for example, that if a troublesome intellectual like Marx had had to live under any of the totalitarian regimes he inspired — Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, etc — he would quickly have found himself dead in a ditch with a bullet in the back of his head, or, at best, in a mental institution."
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/05/delingpole-happy-birthday-karl-marx-not/

The notion Marxist Communist Socialist Progressives are going to start their revolution tickles me.

posted May 06, 2018 11:29 PM            

According to pictures from one source, some of the protesters set fire to the Trump effigy.

“We must carry out military actions against the enemies of the people!” the Red Guard wrote in a published speech about the protests they held on May 1 to their blog. “We must steel ourselves in the fire of class struggle everywhere it is in its sharpest stages – such as production and housing.”

They added, “Police presence was astonishing with dozens of cruisers on the streets surrounding the march-bloc, helicopters overhead and California Highway Patrol blocking freeway offramps. Pigs in riot gear and in formation were salivating for a confrontation, but remained still and confused like stupid dogs.”

May Day protests were reportedly observed and attended by hundreds of thousands of leftists throughout the world to advocate for social justice causes, celebrate communism, and call for a “living wage,” among other things. The day is also referred to as “International Workers’ Day.”

In their speech, the group also spoke about its commitment to standing in solidarity with the principally Maoist collectives who are working towards the creation of a Maoist party.

Activists also called for “military actions” against non-communists, whom they referred to as enemies, and outlined their task clearly: “[O]nly through revolutionary violence can the masses create real political power!”

posted May 08, 2018 02:00 AM            

All Marx said was that the worker who give their work force should be better considered by the capital, and that the capital without them was nothing.

Don't you agree ?

posted May 08, 2018 01:31 PM            

You are so full of crap it's turned your blue eyes brown.

Americans work more hours annually than Europeans did during the pre-industrial times of the 5th rate thinker Karl Marx.

posted May 08, 2018 02:24 PM            

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Originally posted by jwhop:
"[b]At the time of Marx, people had no days off, no pay if sick, no holidaysobviously, and worked until they died, or lived off their children..."

You are so full of crap it's turned your blue eyes brown.

Americans work more hours annually than Europeans did during the pre-industrial times of the 5th rate thinker Karl Marx.

Not much you say can be trusted to be true.[/B]

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posted May 08, 2018 03:40 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
Wow, so rude.

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Lying is the ultimate rudeness!

posted May 09, 2018 03:14 PM            

Even he at some point didn’t want to be a Marxist.

The bicentennial anniversary of Karl Marx on May 5 came and went. This marginal thinker who became a curious voice of the disenchanted has haunted the globe with puerile economic analysis that a class of people has embraced as its own.

Curiously Marxism is a plagiarized version of early Christian doctrine relying on antipathy to usury; and a belief in historical determinism. The so-called class struggle was a function of widespread discontent evident throughout the European continent during the 1848 “summer of discontent.” Even Marx himself lost confidence in the ideas and their popularity, by noting in Das Kapital, “Je ne suis pas un Marxist.”

Yet these ideas have an appeal that crossed borders and cultures. From China to Cuba the Communist party reigns ripping through the cultures and creating an elite status for party leaders. As Lenin supposedly said, you cannot have an omelet without breaking eggs. The problem, of course, is that the eggs are broken, but the omelet remains a figment of the imagination.

For Marx, capitalism is one stage of history to be replaced through historical materialism and the dialectic till it reaches its ultimate state, communism. According to Marx, capitalists are compelled to engage in competitive acts, but the productive forces unleased by competitive acts ultimately undermine the system they were designed to bolster.

Why then would so many worldwide read Marx as the Bible of the Working Class? In my judgment Marx provides simple answers for complex questions. From a psychological point of view, Marx has cut the metaphorical chains of control. The bourgeoisie of capitalism must recognize the extent to which working people are exploited. Marxists turn the world on its head — from the exploitation of the worker through the owners of production to the Party leaders who cannot countenance any opposition, including workers themselves.

This very belief that Communist Party officials are endowed with a unique understanding based on their having imbibed Marxist principles has led directly to the killing fields in Pol Pot’s Cambodia and atrocities of a similar nature across the globe.

But even in benign situations, Marxism has failed. The typical employee may engage in invidious comparisons with the worker immediately above him, but rarely does he express anger at Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates. In fact, Marxism defies the basic characteristics of human nature. People unrestrained by the devolution of providential will Marxism promotes, confuse individualism and narcissism. Those in thralldom to Marx are no longer centered in a universe God created. They are set free unanchored in a turbulent sea. As Dostoyevsky noted, “if there isn’t a God anything is possible.” Alas, that is what characterizes the present human condition: people without meaning in their lives, superficial sensate pleasures, and an isolation bordering on fear. In the advanced stage of socialism property (read: possessions) can be confiscated, yet another bizarre condition that defies instinctive reality. The state owns everything and the individual owns nothing, but devotion to the state.

Marx needs a lot to assuage his guilt. He may not have killed directly, but his heirs have. From Lenin, to Stalin to Mussolini, and Hitler, Marx is the ghost in their economic plans. Curiously school children still study Marx, with 44 percent of youthful Americans claiming they are devotees of this philosophy. I would describe this phenomenon as trained incapacity. Elites buying the rope that will be used to hang themselves (to misquote Lenin).

The statues of Marx have not been toppled in Peking or Moscow, but my suspicion is those who have lived with Marx do not want to die with him. It is one thing to live comfortably in a well-protected United States, where Bernie Sanders is a kind of Dutch Uncle , and Moscow where private property can be confiscated based on the whim of the Supreme Leader or party officials.

posted May 09, 2018 03:57 PM            

Both these statements are true. Though not all labour movements can be rightly called Marxist. in preindustrial times most people did not work into the night. They did not spend hours daily getting to and fron work. They did not produce nearly as much in an hour of work either without machines and mass production.

Not did they have any fallback when ill, infirm or old.

Oh and the bit about unnecessary rudeness was true too

posted May 09, 2018 05:32 PM            

That is simply NOT TRUE!

"Consider a typical working day in the medieval period. It stretched from dawn to dusk (sixteen hours in summer and eight in winter), but, as the Bishop Pilkington has noted, work was intermittent - called to a halt for breakfast, lunch, the customary afternoon nap, and dinner. Depending on time and place, there were also midmorning and midafternoon refreshment breaks. These rest periods were the traditional rights of laborers, which they enjoyed even during peak harvest times. During slack periods, which accounted for a large part of the year, adherence to regular working hours was not usual."

posted May 31, 2018 03:43 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
I bet Obama bought a cake.

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posted June 01, 2018 03:01 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:

And he ate ice cream on Memorial Day and posted it on his Twitter, so I'm sure his Communist Cake was a la mode.

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posted June 30, 2018 06:49 PM            

Marx's life was entirely within the span of the industrial period. Which began decades before his birth.

posted June 30, 2018 07:56 PM            

"At the time of Marx, people had no days off, no pay if sick, no holidays obviously, and worked until they died, or lived off their children..."

Obviously NOT TRUE!

posted July 01, 2018 12:17 AM            

Americans work more hours annually than Europeans did during the pre-industrial times of the 5th rate thinker Karl Marx.

So the average worker only worked an 8-10 hour day in 1840 ..365 days a year. Average. And had no security of employment or wages, no sick pay and no benefits. But you want to argue that medieval workers lived the life of Riley.. It's still nonsense.

posted July 01, 2018 01:18 PM            

The Obama devastation of the American economy saw millions of Americans lose their jobs, their employment benefits and their health insurance.

posted July 01, 2018 02:48 PM            

This one actually compares us to some of those so-called socialist gulags you like to soapbox about:
http://www.businessinsider.com/average-annual-hours-worked-for-americans-vs-the-rest-of-the-world-2013-8

posted July 18, 2018 11:42 AM            

So as I originally said, teasel's claim was true and so, partially, was yours.. but only because you left out a century between the time you were talking about and the appearance of Marx.

posted July 18, 2018 03:22 PM            

I wasn't proving Marx wrong...though Marx, the 5th rate thinker was wrong about just about everything. I was proving pire wrong...and pire is wrong.

"False equivalence doesn't begin to describe it. This article agrees with your statement about hours and vacations in medieval times.. but points out the same as I did.. with the industrial age and light bulbs came the work-round-the-clock and round the year "ethic" that didn't exist in times of seasonal, daylight labour."

Sorry, your timeline is totally messed up. The age of viable electric lights and large scale electric power generation..which you mention..didn't really get up and going in most places until the early 20th Century.

"The electrification of households in Europe and North America began in the early 20th century in major cities and in areas served by electric railways and increased rapidly until about 1930 when 70% of households were electrified in the U.S".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrification

In fact, a long lasting light bulb was not invented until 1879, which was not a problem because electric generating plants were not viable until about 1891...and even then, not on a continental basis.

"it generated 800 kilowatts and supplied central London. On its completion in 1891 it was the first truly modern power station, supplying high-voltage AC power"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrification#Central_power_stations_and_isolated_syste ms

All of this was long AFTER Karl Marx issued his piece of trash, Communist Manifesto...in 1848.

posted July 18, 2018 09:18 PM            

The reason medieval workers had so much time off was available light and seasonal chores. The reason labor laws came into being was because people were expected to work their lives away with no security, rest or time for family.

For awhile installing workers rights and benefits raised the quality of life but the whittling away of unions and respect for workers rights in general has caused many Americans to feel forced to work those marathon hours you talk about.. in an age when machines make most tasks simpler and more productive than ever. Of course the Keeping-Up jones fed by Madison Ave etc. contributes.. but for many just keeping head above water is a full time occupation.