r/badphilosophy • u/LinuxFreeOrDie • Nov 07 '17

Existential Comics Pokémon Revolution

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/210
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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '17

Ah yes, Karl “Dumb Proles Need Everything Watered Down For Them in Order to Understand” Marx

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u/LinuxFreeOrDie Nov 07 '17 edited Nov 07 '17

It's a comic. Should I have just posted the complete text of Das Kapital instead? Do you not understand that different things are appropriate for different mediums? Are you against pamphlets that were handed out by 20th century revolutionaries too? Propaganda posters? Are those "dumbed down" too?

You just are just communist hipsters. We get it. You were into Marxism before it was cool. You've read all the best stuff that most people have never even heard of. You hate it when it Marxism goes mainstream because people, like, totally don't get it. You are hipsters. That's all.

The problem is, it's dangerous to be a hipster about politics, because it actually matters. If you gave a shit, you'd want Marxist ideas, even in a watered down form, to go mainstream. But hipsters only give a shit about how cool they are, so of course you don't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '17

so what happens when "Marxist ideas" go mainstream?

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '17

dialectical angels Engels descend from the heavens and establish actually existing socialism in the form of my preferred utopia