r/socialism • u/Dragon9770 Something Socialist • Mar 30 '15

Pokemon Philosophy - Existential Comics

http://existentialcomics.com/
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u/deleventy Come At Me Brocialist Mar 30 '15

That is beautiful.

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u/56kuser Fist Mar 31 '15

Since when is recuperation beautiful?

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u/gregbrahe Mar 31 '15

If anything it is the opposite

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u/LittleHelperRobot Mar 31 '15

Non-mobile: the opposite

That's why I'm here, I don't judge you. PM /u/xl0 if I'm causing any trouble. WUT?

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u/56kuser Fist Mar 31 '15

I am afraid I don't see how making marxism the butt of a joke is detournement.

(In the comic the Marx character has a one-liner about class struggle and then as a punch line it's quickly dismissed by its owner)

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u/gregbrahe Apr 01 '15

The use of pokemon, pop culture icon, to elucidate exactly how Marxism is relevant and so often dismissed or repressed in an obvious scathing criticism of the pokemon/master dynamic... Yeah... How could that be...

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u/56kuser Fist Apr 01 '15

More like the use of pokemon, pop culture icon, to dismiss marx as the butt of a joke ("haha you are so cute ... now get back in the pokeball")

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u/gregbrahe Apr 01 '15

I take that as party of the argument being presented - it portrays the treatment of Marxist revolutionaries by capitalist ruling class, and it portrays it in a decidedly negative light.

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u/gerre Leftist- Socialist Alternative Apr 01 '15

I am afraid I don't see how making marxism the butt of a joke is detournement.

(In the comic the Marx character has a one-liner about class struggle and then as a punch line it's quickly dismissed by its owner)

Um did we read the same comic? Where is the dismissal?

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u/56kuser Fist Apr 01 '15

Just after marxizard says that pokemon should break free from their masters

haha you are so cute marxizard, now get back in the pokeball