Do memes from 1911 count if they're still true?
Do memes from 1911 count if they're still true?
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My partner's father is a member of the canadian communist party and he has this framed and hung up in his house
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A classic
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Thank you! I recently saw a thumbnail of this in a Feral Historian video and I was hoping to find a copy.
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I'm confused about what this picture is trying to say. What do the 2nd, 3rd and 4th tiers from the top — rule by royalty(?), indoctrination by the clergy, oppression by the military — have to do with capitalism?
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I think it's more:
- We rule you and take your money
- We preach to you and take your money
- We fight you and take your money/resources
- We take your resources that you've grown
Or it could be the rulling class takes the biggest cut, clergy the next biggest etc. with workers at the bottom supporting the entire system but receiving the least.
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Well, they were likely called mimemes back then, but, yes, they still count. And holy crap is it still relevant.
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We need an updated version of this.
First, the money goes underneath the liberal politicians and their capitalist and fascist cronies. The Marxists got that wrong. They don't serve capital - capital serves them.
Second, replace the religious types with media personalities.
Third, replace the diners with upper middle-class "managerial" types and move them one step up.
Fourth, move the goon squad one level down and - of course - replace them with pigs.
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You don’t think religion is still used to control people?
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Not really. I don't think religion was ever used to control people. Certain aspects of religion was used to justify certain classes hoarding the real means of control - which is always a material thing - but that makes religion no different than any other justification (such as nationalism or the belief in the so-called "free market")
Marx himself had a pretty nuanced take on this - I'd say he was half-right about it. The Marxist-Lennists completely fudged it - as they do with almost everything - but even anarchists got this horribly wrong.
Even if you disagree with what I'm saying - and most leftists do - you still have to admit that the only way you control religion today is through media.
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I like this one
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Especially so.
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Imagine telling the original artist right after they finished it that in 113 years time people would be posting his/her creation in full color and high fidelity on a communications system that instantly made it accessible to anyone in the world. That would completely blow their mind.
Now imagine also telling them the situation in the meme is the same or worse 113 years later and they will cry.
Them: "What's a meme?"
Eh. Marx was pretty clear that it was a process, and worker rights have improved.
What they'd be upset about is everyone twiddling their thumbs while we kill the climate.
Or put on a sly grin and sue OP for Future -Royalties
“Wow, so with all that innovation things are better?”
“Look I don’t know how to tell you this but we definitely aren’t making the most of our new technology and medicine.”
I mean... things are better, just not nearly as much as they should be.