Posted on 05/15/2018 2:45:04 PM PDT by TBP
Teen Vogue recently published a controversial article titled, “Who is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar,” and promoted it on Twitter, saying that “The political philosopher turned 200-years-old on May 5, but his ideas can still teach us about the past and present.”
Author Danielle Corcione vilifies “rich people” and “bosses” in the piece, while gushing that through The Communist Manifesto, Marx “inspired millions of people to resist oppressive political leaders and spark political revolutions all over the world.”
Corcione interviewed a high school teacher and former professor about how they incorporate Marx’s teachings into their class curriculum.
Former Drexel University professor George Ciccariello-Maher is quoted as saying: “When I teach Marx, it’s got a lot to do with questions of how to think critically about history. Marx says we live under capitalism [but] capitalism has not always existed. It’s something that came into being and something that, as a result, just on a logical level, could disappear, could be overthrown, could be abolished, could be irrelevant.
“There’s this myth of the free market, but Marx shows very clearly that capitalism emerged through a state of violence.”
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro responded on Twitter by saying of Marx, “His horrifying and stupid ideas led to the deaths of 100 million human beings and the misery of billions of others. Saved you a click.”
National Review’s Andrew Stuttaford remarked on the Teen Vogue article: “To deny that Karl Marx was, at times, a startlingly original thinker, would be nutty. To deny that he was, in many respects, one of the most lethal of a long line of millenarian preachers, is to embrace ignorance. And to deny that his work inspired the death of maybe one hundred million victims is something altogether more sinister.
“Marx may or may not have anticipated the scale of slaughter to come, but he understood perfectly well that mass murder was part of the package.”
Teen Vogue has a number of articles relating to politics and economics. Last month, the magazine published an article explaining “What ‘Capitalism’ is and how it affects people.”
In that work, Marx was cited for emphasizing capitalism’s “capacity to dehumanize workers.” Author Kim Kelly also slammed former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the article, saying that her “pro-capitalism stance is said to have devastated the British working class.
He was an awful person - even Engels wouldn’t hang out with him after awhile. He locked his children in the basement most of the time where they fended for themselves truly a sicko.
The owners and investors in Teen Vogue should be made to face a Revolutionary Court and then be made to pay for their crimes against the Proletariat.
That’s what they’re asking for, right?
In the 1930s there was a very funny film with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. The title was "Ninotchka" and it is about a female commissar who visits Paris and has her world view changed. The movie needs to be seen by these air heads.
Karl Marx Fashion Show:
They need to watch this 1992 Russian film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chekist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_RSDqBn0bA
The belief that you can have everything without anyone having to create anything.
Marxism was imposed through violence. It takes money from those who earn it and gives it to those who vote for more money.
I propose the editors of teen vogue give all their money to me.
“His horrifying and stupid ideas led to the deaths of 100 million human beings and the misery of billions of others. Saved you a click.”
Bkmrk.
“A man goes into a restaurant and orders a cup of coffee without cream...”
I think Karl Marx was a devil worshiper about 100 years before Saul Alinsky appeared on the scene. He went from being an awful novelist to being an awful economist whose ideas lead to the slaughter of millions.
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Where is the sensitivity for all of the millions who have suffered under that evil system and where is the sensitivity for those millions of Americans living in the United States who came from those counties that were conquered by Communism. Nobody has ever voted Communism in to power it is always by force or deception.
Vogue is a loony bin. They promote and are totally gaga over hyper-capitalist lifestyle and simultaneously espouse leftist, Marxist drivel.
Karl Marx had a wife and three daughters who survived childhood and he let them starve while he spent time in a London library reading Adam Smith trying to figure out how to destroy capitalism.
Scholar?
Silly me. I thought that term referred to thinkers who actually got at least some things right.
Oh, forgot, his theories were correct, only ineptly instituted.
Not to worry, though, they’ll get things right this time (the one hundred and first try).
Or maybe not.
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