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Today I learned that:

1. The Communist Party website sells tee-shirts and Karl Marx lunchboxes. Keep in mind what popular American "-ism" they spend their time denouncing.

2. The Ayn Rand institute- the world's only organization dedicated to the intellectual defense of Capitalisim and selfishness- is a non-profit organization.

I have added this to my official list of things that make me go "What the...?"

Today I learned that:

1. The Communist Party website sells tee-shirts and Karl Marx lunchboxes. Keep in mind what popular American "-ism" they spend their time denouncing.

Maybe they are just actively trying to bring capitalism to its (ahem) 'historically inevitable' conclusion - its own destruction in a fevered frenzy over over-production and over-consumption. Sounds implausible, I know, but such bizarre practices are not without their adherents in Marxist circles - the Bulgarian* Communist party was quite happy to see the Nazis organise and take power as they viewed it as the last kicks of a dying system which would shortly be reborn in a glorious new communist dawn after the long capitalist night, thus they stood back and promoted quietism: there was no need to interfere as capitalism ate itself.


* Possible it was the Hungarian one instead, I don't recall which. It has been a long time since I last had a look at Popper's The Open State & Its Enemies, but it is discussed there.

:lol: This is one of those things that make me say: "Oh, the beautiful irony of it all." BTW, I knew that the Communist Party was selling T-shirts, but I did not know that the Ayn Rand Institute was a non-profit organization.

It's a crazy ol' world. Full of hypocritical extremist bastards. On both sides, so it seems. :(

This also means, rather awesomely, that The Ayn Rand Institute is campaigning for a state of affairs which will lead to its ultimate self-destruction.

Actually, both sides are understandable. Capitalism works with voluntary charity rather than compulsory state welfare, and communists need money to buy all those Che Guevara t-shirts. As Billy Bragg said 'The revolution is only a t-shirt away...'

Its sad to see the left in such a pathetic state.

On a strange way, the Ayn Rand Institute thing makes sense if you factor in that a non-profit doesn't have to pay taxes--maybe that's how they justify it. :lol:

:lol: This is one of those things that make me say: "Oh, the beautiful irony of it all." BTW, I knew that the Communist Party was selling T-shirts, but I did not know that the Ayn Rand Institute was a non-profit organization.

The Ayn Rand Institute involved in deeply problematic self-contradiction... geez, who would have thought it would ever come to that? :wink:

It's a crazy ol' world. Full of hypocritical extremist bastards. On both sides, so it seems. :(

This also means, rather awesomely, that The Ayn Rand Institute is campaigning for a state of affairs which will lead to its ultimate self-destruction.

Ahh - but the ultimate goal of any Marxist party is also its ultimate self-destruction. This special case aside, this problem is known as the paradox of utility - the better you are at a task, the more you achieve in it, and the less you are needed to perform it...

As Billy Bragg said 'The revolution is only a t-shirt away...'

Ahhh.. the Bard of Barking...

:lol: This is one of those things that make me say: "Oh, the beautiful irony of it all." BTW, I knew that the Communist Party was selling T-shirts, but I did not know that the Ayn Rand Institute was a non-profit organization.

The Ayn Rand Institute involved in deeply problematic self-contradiction... geez, who would have thought it would ever come to that? :wink:

LMAO! Indeed! :lol: It is incredibly appropriate.

Maybe they are just actively trying to bring capitalism to its (ahem) 'historically inevitable' conclusion - its own destruction in a fevered frenzy over over-production and over-consumption.

Or maybe they finally figured out that a widespread communist movement with any success is damn near impossible.

take power as they viewed it as the last kicks of a dying system which would shortly be reborn in a glorious new communist dawn after the long capitalist night, thus they stood back and promoted quietism: there was no need to interfere as capitalism ate itself.

That was beautiful. Empty, but beautiful.

IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT JEWS OR AMERICANS....


....HEAVEN. AND IMAGINE SEEING THEM ALL EXECUTED IN A GAS CHAMBER AT THE SAME TIME (ONE BIGASS CHAMBER THAT WOULD BE).
...IT WOULD BE SIMPLY AWESOME.

COMMUNISM WILL COME OUT OF HIDING AND BITE THE WORLD IN THE ASS. HHHAHAHHAHAHHAH

Cynical idealists; signs of the times.

Cynical idealists; signs of the times.

Signs of these times, as opposed to any other times?



Note: don't feed that troll that wandered in just before Neighbourly Affection: they tend to waste away very quickly when starved of attention.

It's a crazy ol' world. Full of hypocritical extremist bastards. On both sides, so it seems. :(

This also means, rather awesomely, that The Ayn Rand Institute is campaigning for a state of affairs which will lead to its ultimate self-destruction.

Ahh - but the ultimate goal of any Marxist party is also its ultimate self-destruction. This special case aside, this problem is known as the paradox of utility - the better you are at a task, the more you achieve in it, and the less you are needed to perform it...

As Billy Bragg said 'The revolution is only a t-shirt away...'

Ahhh.. the Bard of Barking...

He's my hero.

:lol: I just pictured Marx saying"do want fries with that"

and

:lol: atlas saying "I might as well do this for free."

Sorry bad humor.