Barack Obama would NOT be pleased to hear this!
Posted on 01/30/2014 10:39:55 AM PST by Academiadotorg
Only at the Modern Language Association (MLA) can you find an English professor who will boldly go where no Marxist has ever gone before. It is one thing to think Marx was a brilliant economist, despite more than a century’s worth of evidence to the contrary. It is quite another to think he was a talented poet.
To Crystal Lynn Bartolovich of Syracuse University, Marx was the master of “critical irony.”
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Based on what I’ve heard about Karl Marx’s life, I’d assume his “poetry” would be similar to Ewan McTeagle’s:
Can I have fifty pounds to mend the shed?
I’m right on my uppers.
I can pay you back
When this postal order comes from Australia.
Honestly.
Hope the bladder trouble’s geting better.
Love, Ewan
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