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38 thoughts on “Marxism”
This looks like unintentional self-satire…
Some people were simply born to lick the windows in life’s short bus.
That is the most amazing comment I’ve ever read. You win the Internets for the month of December.
That dude’s smokin’ some really heavy sh*t.
Jim must be writhing in bliss at the very words of that article
“On June 23, 1905, Orville Wright became the first person to successfully fly a powered aircraft. ”
June 23?
1905?
Hey, when you’re a Marxist, “facts” and “truth” become somewhat more malleable.
“Don’t stop him, he’s on a roll”
That was the date of the first flight of the Wright Flyer III.
It’s not the first flight of a powered aircraft, which is what the author states.
I know Jon, I was suggesting that’s where the author got the date from.
Somehow I knew you’d imagine I somehow needed correcting.
… the primary obstacle in the way of humanity’s development today: the private ownership of the means of production.
Wow, with that impeccable logic, we never would have gotten beyond the biplane. nor the Eniac computer. But, you can’t expect much from a Marxist. Real thinking is hard!
The “Stalinist Counterrevolution”?
I don’t habitually read current day Marxist drivel (Ok, occasionally the NYT, but I mean the straight-up stuff), but I guess their method is if something is repellant enough, it’s labeled as counterrevolutionary, no matter however thoroughly Marxist the players were.
The most disgusting thing is that marxist thought has infected us everywhere. We ‘capitalists’ are too often unaware of our acceptance that the state is superior to the individual. That the concentration of tax funds makes it the right way to do things.
The only justification is when existence is on the line. Otherwise the arguments are no justification at all. Even the existential threat argument is weaker than proponents believe.
Reading that baby talk makes me ill.
It makes you ill because Marxists are Nazi’s with better PR to quote the Professor. If Marxists were examined with the same moral enthusiasm as Republicans, they’d have disappeared from the Western world a long time ago.
=100 million murders
Too Long;Did not Read
Effing hilarious read. Listening to a marxist is like listening to that crack addicted street prostitute ramble about how her life sucks as she meanders through all the disastrous choices made over the years. The internal hamster spinning in her brain has a logic defying answer to all her ills.
The sole redeeming value of the article is that it does correctly observe the similarity of NASA and the soviet effort as socialist cousin bureaucracies. Never mind all those evil for profit subcontractors that actually built stuff that worked, vs. say the N-1 moon rocket.
Marxism …in Spaaaaaaaaaaace.
I think Iron Sky did it better as the Marxist will probably substitute Lena Dunham for the sexy blond chick.
Steve Jobs had his “reality distortion zone.” These people have their “reality destruction zone.” My first overseas teaching job as an English teacher was in Nanjing, China in 1987-1988. This was when Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms were starting to move into high gear. When it came to Marxism the only thing that was apparent to me was that everybody seemed to be trying to get away from it as fast as they possibly could. I had one short but very interesting conversation with a Polish woman while riding the bus into town from my university. She told me about all the wonderful goodies she could find in Chinese department stores compared to Poland. This was a real shocker to me because I thought those very same stores were about eight steps below K-Mart. The next year, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and Communism collapsed in Poland. Nuff said.
PJ O’Rourke wrote about the utter dreariness of Poland in the 1980s. Apparently he wasn’t exaggerating.
Sergei Korolev subsequently became the main architect of the Soviet space program. However, he was only ever publicly referred to as “The Chief Designer” in the press, his identity not being released until his death in 1966, for fear of an assassination attempt by the US, and the embarrassment it would cause the Stalinists had it been public knowledge that the key figure in the Soviet space program was a former gulag prisoner.
The author never connects the dots even when repeating obvious blatant stupidities. How is knowing the name of the “Chief Designer” going to help anyone kill that person? To the contrary, it makes it harder. The real reason is rather obvious. If Korolev became popular, then he’d be a threat to the people in power who don’t have even a little popularity and removing him in the traditional ways entails much greater risks. But if he’s just another anonymous slug, then a bullet in the back solves the problem easily enough. They don’t even need to replace him with a real human, using a Big Brother-style fabrication is trivial.
I always wondered if the Soviets did him in. He died of complications of a routine surgery. The problem is, socialist “health” “care” is so rotten that one could never tell what was a genuine screw up or an assassination. Korolev wasn’t exactly persona grata everywhere in the Soviet Union. He had one powerful enemy, Vladimir Chelomei. There’s no telling whether Vlad was able to have Sergei offed. But given the fact that Korolev had been in the Gulag for many years, and almost died there, it wouldn’t surprise me. We Left Wing Progressives are very brutal against those we don’t like….for any reason whatsoever.
So watch it…Jim (aka “Leon”).
The actual story is something like this. Korolev had hemorrhoids. They caused him some discomfort but he kept postponing surgery because he had a lot of work to do. Eventually the discomfort started interfering with his work and he went to have surgery. The Soviet Ministery of Health of himself (who was a doctor although his specialty was not GI) decided he had to conduct the surgery personally. While they were operating Korolev they discovered he actually had a cancer in his intestine rather than just some hemorrhoids. The operation failed and he died there.
I think I got this while reading Chertok’s memoirs. As for your theory about Chelomei being behind his death. It is unlikely Chelomei could pull something like that. Most of Chelomeis polical power came from someone in Khrushchev’s family working for him and by the time Korolev died Khrushchev had been removed from power already and Chelomei had fallen out of favor.
s/Soviet Ministery of Health of himself/Soviet Minister of Health himself/
Note the irony: even in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, the person in charge of the Soviet space program wasn’t an interchangeable cog. They couldn’t replace him, just like the USA couldn’t replace von Braun and Apple couldn’t replace Steve Jobs.
Yep, I’ve always found it ironic that a collectivist society was so dependent on a single individual genius.
I could be wrong, but I never got the impression that the U.S. was as dependent on von Braun as the Soviets were on Korolev. If von Braun had died in 1966, I think we still would have made it to the moon. Work on the Saturn V was well advanced by that time, and the various components were being built by a variety of companies. Von Braun wasn’t micromanaging every detail of the project.
By 1966 they didn’t need Goddard or Tsiolkovsky either. But they sure needed von Braun from 1945 until mid 1960s. Just imagine if the Russians had caught him in 1945, or if he’d been killed during the war.
The fact remains: some men are key individuals, whose presence or loss changes the course of history. It’s a key flaw of communism. Men may be equal before the law, but they are not equivalent.
Marx? Whatever it is, I’m against it!
I wonder how the author explains the collapse of the USSR to himself, and does he see the PRC as a demonstration of the success of communism, or does he recognize that the Peoples Republic’s economic growth is actually built on capitalism and perhaps condemn it for its sweat shops and exploitation of the impoverished masses?
Sounds like it was a bad case of counterrevolutionaries (that is, revolutionaries in charge) that messed up the Soviet attempt. But I’m sure they’ll get it right next time.
From the ancient, ancient, 1960s comedy group Firesign Theater, Groucho, Harpo & Chico Marx and Lenin (Lennon).
I’m an English teacher and part-time international relations instructor here in Seoul, and these left clowns are the dominant species among the ESL teaching community here. All emotion, coupled with the thought that if they can just demonstrate their good intentions clearly and loudly enough, everybody else will come around to their way of thinking. Hatred of Reagan and Thatcher still runs strong and deep here. Contra-survival indicated.
Hey, next time I fly to Japan maybe I’ll stop in Seoul (the cheap flights route through there) and buy you a drink. 🙂
To his credit, he at least acknowledged the Stalinist purges. I’m sure there is some utterly unassailable “that’s not REAL socialism” argument in his quiver but it was refreshing to see a Marxist admit they happened.
This looks like unintentional self-satire…
Some people were simply born to lick the windows in life’s short bus.
That is the most amazing comment I’ve ever read. You win the Internets for the month of December.
That dude’s smokin’ some really heavy sh*t.
Jim must be writhing in bliss at the very words of that article
“On June 23, 1905, Orville Wright became the first person to successfully fly a powered aircraft. ”
June 23?
1905?
Hey, when you’re a Marxist, “facts” and “truth” become somewhat more malleable.
“Don’t stop him, he’s on a roll”
That was the date of the first flight of the Wright Flyer III.
It’s not the first flight of a powered aircraft, which is what the author states.
I know Jon, I was suggesting that’s where the author got the date from.
Somehow I knew you’d imagine I somehow needed correcting.
… the primary obstacle in the way of humanity’s development today: the private ownership of the means of production.
Wow, with that impeccable logic, we never would have gotten beyond the biplane. nor the Eniac computer. But, you can’t expect much from a Marxist. Real thinking is hard!
The “Stalinist Counterrevolution”?
I don’t habitually read current day Marxist drivel (Ok, occasionally the NYT, but I mean the straight-up stuff), but I guess their method is if something is repellant enough, it’s labeled as counterrevolutionary, no matter however thoroughly Marxist the players were.
The most disgusting thing is that marxist thought has infected us everywhere. We ‘capitalists’ are too often unaware of our acceptance that the state is superior to the individual. That the concentration of tax funds makes it the right way to do things.
The only justification is when existence is on the line. Otherwise the arguments are no justification at all. Even the existential threat argument is weaker than proponents believe.
Reading that baby talk makes me ill.
It makes you ill because Marxists are Nazi’s with better PR to quote the Professor. If Marxists were examined with the same moral enthusiasm as Republicans, they’d have disappeared from the Western world a long time ago.
=100 million murders
Too Long;Did not Read
Effing hilarious read. Listening to a marxist is like listening to that crack addicted street prostitute ramble about how her life sucks as she meanders through all the disastrous choices made over the years. The internal hamster spinning in her brain has a logic defying answer to all her ills.
The sole redeeming value of the article is that it does correctly observe the similarity of NASA and the soviet effort as socialist cousin bureaucracies. Never mind all those evil for profit subcontractors that actually built stuff that worked, vs. say the N-1 moon rocket.
Marxism …in Spaaaaaaaaaaace.
I think Iron Sky did it better as the Marxist will probably substitute Lena Dunham for the sexy blond chick.
Steve Jobs had his “reality distortion zone.” These people have their “reality destruction zone.” My first overseas teaching job as an English teacher was in Nanjing, China in 1987-1988. This was when Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms were starting to move into high gear. When it came to Marxism the only thing that was apparent to me was that everybody seemed to be trying to get away from it as fast as they possibly could. I had one short but very interesting conversation with a Polish woman while riding the bus into town from my university. She told me about all the wonderful goodies she could find in Chinese department stores compared to Poland. This was a real shocker to me because I thought those very same stores were about eight steps below K-Mart. The next year, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and Communism collapsed in Poland. Nuff said.
PJ O’Rourke wrote about the utter dreariness of Poland in the 1980s. Apparently he wasn’t exaggerating.
Sergei Korolev subsequently became the main architect of the Soviet space program. However, he was only ever publicly referred to as “The Chief Designer” in the press, his identity not being released until his death in 1966, for fear of an assassination attempt by the US, and the embarrassment it would cause the Stalinists had it been public knowledge that the key figure in the Soviet space program was a former gulag prisoner.
The author never connects the dots even when repeating obvious blatant stupidities. How is knowing the name of the “Chief Designer” going to help anyone kill that person? To the contrary, it makes it harder. The real reason is rather obvious. If Korolev became popular, then he’d be a threat to the people in power who don’t have even a little popularity and removing him in the traditional ways entails much greater risks. But if he’s just another anonymous slug, then a bullet in the back solves the problem easily enough. They don’t even need to replace him with a real human, using a Big Brother-style fabrication is trivial.
I always wondered if the Soviets did him in. He died of complications of a routine surgery. The problem is, socialist “health” “care” is so rotten that one could never tell what was a genuine screw up or an assassination. Korolev wasn’t exactly persona grata everywhere in the Soviet Union. He had one powerful enemy, Vladimir Chelomei. There’s no telling whether Vlad was able to have Sergei offed. But given the fact that Korolev had been in the Gulag for many years, and almost died there, it wouldn’t surprise me. We Left Wing Progressives are very brutal against those we don’t like….for any reason whatsoever.
So watch it…Jim (aka “Leon”).
The actual story is something like this. Korolev had hemorrhoids. They caused him some discomfort but he kept postponing surgery because he had a lot of work to do. Eventually the discomfort started interfering with his work and he went to have surgery. The Soviet Ministery of Health of himself (who was a doctor although his specialty was not GI) decided he had to conduct the surgery personally. While they were operating Korolev they discovered he actually had a cancer in his intestine rather than just some hemorrhoids. The operation failed and he died there.
I think I got this while reading Chertok’s memoirs. As for your theory about Chelomei being behind his death. It is unlikely Chelomei could pull something like that. Most of Chelomeis polical power came from someone in Khrushchev’s family working for him and by the time Korolev died Khrushchev had been removed from power already and Chelomei had fallen out of favor.
s/Soviet Ministery of Health of himself/Soviet Minister of Health himself/
Note the irony: even in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, the person in charge of the Soviet space program wasn’t an interchangeable cog. They couldn’t replace him, just like the USA couldn’t replace von Braun and Apple couldn’t replace Steve Jobs.
Yep, I’ve always found it ironic that a collectivist society was so dependent on a single individual genius.
I could be wrong, but I never got the impression that the U.S. was as dependent on von Braun as the Soviets were on Korolev. If von Braun had died in 1966, I think we still would have made it to the moon. Work on the Saturn V was well advanced by that time, and the various components were being built by a variety of companies. Von Braun wasn’t micromanaging every detail of the project.
By 1966 they didn’t need Goddard or Tsiolkovsky either. But they sure needed von Braun from 1945 until mid 1960s. Just imagine if the Russians had caught him in 1945, or if he’d been killed during the war.
The fact remains: some men are key individuals, whose presence or loss changes the course of history. It’s a key flaw of communism. Men may be equal before the law, but they are not equivalent.
Marx? Whatever it is, I’m against it!
I wonder how the author explains the collapse of the USSR to himself, and does he see the PRC as a demonstration of the success of communism, or does he recognize that the Peoples Republic’s economic growth is actually built on capitalism and perhaps condemn it for its sweat shops and exploitation of the impoverished masses?
Sounds like it was a bad case of counterrevolutionaries (that is, revolutionaries in charge) that messed up the Soviet attempt. But I’m sure they’ll get it right next time.
From the ancient, ancient, 1960s comedy group Firesign Theater, Groucho, Harpo & Chico Marx and Lenin (Lennon).
I’m an English teacher and part-time international relations instructor here in Seoul, and these left clowns are the dominant species among the ESL teaching community here. All emotion, coupled with the thought that if they can just demonstrate their good intentions clearly and loudly enough, everybody else will come around to their way of thinking. Hatred of Reagan and Thatcher still runs strong and deep here. Contra-survival indicated.
Hey, next time I fly to Japan maybe I’ll stop in Seoul (the cheap flights route through there) and buy you a drink. 🙂
To his credit, he at least acknowledged the Stalinist purges. I’m sure there is some utterly unassailable “that’s not REAL socialism” argument in his quiver but it was refreshing to see a Marxist admit they happened.
“Where did you dig up that old fossil?”
Every planet a Red planet.