Marxism is, in general, cleverness for stupid people. You get to use words like ‘hegemony’ and analyse the world, albeit in unusually fatuous terms.
Marxism: The belief that if only one could violate the autonomy of enough people, confiscate their earnings and rewire their very nature, the result would somehow be Total Human Contentment™.
Feel free to suggest your own.
I think that Marx’s adage of:”From each according to his ability to each according to his need”. is the clearest and most frightening. It requires state coercion to assure that each works to his ability, though that one is impossible to enforce and state coercion to determine what is everyone’s need. Indeed, the true horror of Marxism can be summed up in one phrase: Why should I work to my full ability to fulfill your full need? The inevitable dictatorship then arises to try to force that very outcome. Inevitable shortages occur when everyone works as hard as they are whipped and no harder.
Marxist-related: Thoughts of Russian factory workers: “They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work”
All yeah who dare to disagree with me are stupid… period!
“You can’t get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.” – P.J. ORourke
Fave Marxism quote: “How do you tell a Communist?
Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist?
It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” – Reagan.
Communism: the burning fear that someone, somewhere, may be less miserable than you.
Marxism is the fallacious belief that you can reach utopia by sticking a gun in someone’s face and demanding they produce it.
Over to you Vlad – –
Communism for the elites – “what is mine is mine, and what is your’s is mine, too.”
Marxism: a system which universally and spectacularly fails to deliver the only thing it promises — material well being.
Marx’s basic premise works pretty well. “Follow the money” is much truer than the rest of his science fantasy bullshit. It is noteworthy that Ferdinand LaSalle, a contemporary of Marx and a very effective German trade unionist fanatic, would have nothing to do with Marx or his ideas because he thought Marx was a certified or certifiable loon.
Marxism
Straight Man: “Say, do you know that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard?”
Groucho: “No, but if you hum a few bars I’ll improvise.”
Who the hell cares about the other kind of Marxism anymore?
A form of pathological projection; the conviction that the world must be made in one’s own image, which, as you know, is beautiful. To bring that golden age to pass, all you have to do is really, really want it. Should the world and others fail to comply, you may have to clench your fists and stamp your feet and generally make a ruckus.
Also know as “Hysterical Determinism”.
Marxism: Enabling stupid.
Marxism is the failed belief that a man will work his tail off to feed and clothe his neighbor’s kids.
Marxism is religion for atheists, sociology for misanthropes, economics for people who are bad at arithmetic.
Honestly, from my perspective, I am fairly certain that biblically dpeaking, Marx was a false prophet. A servant of the devil. How else to explain how it attacks all other religions? How it attacks and destroys families? The mass killings? Satan’s work.
Marxism is:
Feudalism for the industrial era.
The most extreme form of statism possible, where even the concept of private property has been outlawed.
Nothing more than a new sales pitch for a bunch of old ideas for total social control.
The largest experiment of any kind, social, cultural, economic, political, scientific, which has ever been attempted.
One tiger and twenty thousand sheep voting on what’s for dinner, but without universal sufferage.
The Final Solution to the thorny problem of political plurality.
A promise to the intelligentsia that they will be made Gods and a promise to the empoverished that they will be made Kings. No one is promised to be made vassals.
Without doubt and without exception, the most murderous ideology ever devised.
From each according to whatever they’ve got, to each according to the calculated minimun needed to prevent desperate mortal rebellion.
A witch doctor’s chant in the mouth of a degreed economist.
The greatest con since the serpent and the apple.
Barack Obama’s end game for America.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
~G. Marx
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
~G. Marx
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good. Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of finer clay than the rest of mankind?
– Frédéric Bastiat
Bastiat lived around the same time as Marx and could see through all the “socialist” claptrap as clearly as anyone writing today.
Marxism consists of two types of people.
Those who know that they can gain power by inciting the lazy or ignorant through appealing to their greed and jealousy of others.
Those who are lazy or ignorant.
Marxism: Doing the same thing over and over, then expecting a different result.
Marxists: A bunch of do-gooder assholes who were first against the wall when the revolution came.
marxism is you are excused that
others are successful. they
are corrupt and we are justified
in taking what they created.
Marxism: Using people’s own envy to enslave them.
Marxism murders the minds and or the bodies of people wherever it takes control.
One of the simpler definitions “Do as I tell ya, not as I do”
Marxism
Creating a workers paradise by enslaving workers to punishing labor for no compensation and forcing farmers to produce food until they starve to death and mandatory democracy as long as its for the Socialist ruling party in power with only 1 candidate on the ballot and a whole bunch of freedoms on a pretty constitution as long as you don’t plan on exercising any of them and 1 state run store fully stocked that you can’t buy anything from.
Related: North Koreans just voted in a general election on Sunday.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/north-korea-holds-election-kim-jong-un-runs-123900282.html