Cities Protecting Statues By Disguising Them As Karl Marx June 24th, 2020 217.2kSHARE 29.1kSHARE SHARE U.S.—Looking to protect their statues and other municipal monuments, cities and towns across the country have begun disguising their statues as Karl Marx. City councils all over are ordering Karl Marx wigs and putting them on Teddy Roosevelt, George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and other statues. The move has proven extremely effective at deterring Antifa and other extremist groups, who are only looking for statues of old hateful white guys to destroy and not statues of communists. "As soon as enraged rioters see the statue isn't of a dangerous, murderous madman whose ideas killed hundreds of millions but is just of Karl Marx, they move on," said one city council member in Illinois as he put a Karl Marx wig and beard on a statue of Abraham Lincoln. "Well, first, they bow respectfully to their hero and then move on." Plaques on the statues with controversial quotes from the Founding Fathers are also being covered up with Marx quotes like "Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution!" and "Workers of the world, unite!" Some towns are reporting that Che Guevara chin stubble and a beret also work wonders at saving the monuments. https://babylonbee.com/news/cities-...a4iQasdn51u6ukdON40h-WRvJ1jBriIjeNdXYenAc4qJo
in case the shitty photshop wasn't a dead give away because gullible cons fall for this shit all the time
Its true, hard to know if they realised. So often they don't. While good satire, Karl Marx never killed anyone. He died in 1883. A bit like poor old Nietzsche (died 1900) has similar issues with the Nazis taking some ideas the wrong way. Ayn Rand on the other hand was a nasty enough piece of work but not as talented.
I've always been stunned by this first interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace in 1959: I hear her speaking yiddish before the interview starts. Probably Ashkenazi? Fierce intellect. Much of her philosophy soars far above my head though.
Not over my head, objectivism is only impressive to teenage boys and those who never mature I'm afraid. She was Jewish (born Alissa Rosenbaum) and Russian. She had some peculiar sexual fantasies and got a very weird notion in her head of the ideal man.. Again it struck a chord with teens who did not have strong/normal father figures. She was a big fan of a pedophile kidnapper (Hickman) who murdered a little girl, not because she wanted to do that but because she though his single minded determination to take what he wanted ignoring the social taboo of pedo-murder-dismembering was dreamy. She had many traits of a psychopath but was admittedly a lot smarter than most of them are. Female psychopaths are quite different to males of course.
The really sad thing is you thought EliteTrader members wouldn't immediately see the article as humor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes Karl Marx literally advocated for "revolutionary terror" in the article The Victory of Counter-Revolution in Vienna. Communism is by it's nature a violent, terroristic, authoritarian belief system. I'd imagine your response will be "yes but he never killed anyone himself". This is simply moving the goalpost. He "never killed anyone" just like Don Corleone "never killed anyone". But perhaps this analogy will go over your head.
You are not in politics now so mind your language little fella You may want to read that another few times and Google the bit before just where he describes how Vienna was just taken with extreme viciousness by some very nasty people. Context is everything. His overall life approach was not this but its a famous quote for quote miners. I did not say he his work didn't inspire bad business, just knowing what would happen he would he changed some words. As I said, Marx would not have been a fan of how some of his ideas were reworked, same with Nietzsche. He did not coin the "terror", that came from the French revolution and he was actually approving of organised religion, again you have to read the bit before the opiate of the masses part. He would not have agreed with what happened well after, I suspect he probably would have said hey guys, this middle class thing could be expanded a bit, that might work. Anyway, very tired, you can quote mine back something tomorrow.
Ayn Rand was a reaction to Soviet authoritarianism, which was a reaction to their revolution, which was a reaction to their extreme inequality. Is irony the right word for it? She espoused a form of unfettered individualism which results in extreme inequality.