honestly my least favorite thing about interacting with leninists online is that most of the time they don’t even need to be lying to support the point they are making. but they lie anyway, as a reflex. as if it needs practice.
awful creature that senses my presence from across the room, instantly emerging from her hovel to hound me for snacks
1. Marxism is not a religion or celebrity cult where people "stan" Marx and the validity of his theories is proven by his exemplary personal life, it's a science of political economy that's been used, adapted, critiqued, and modified by billions of people for almost two centuries. It's called "Marxism" for the same reason it's called "Darwinism" - he's the guy that laid the theoretical foundations of a scientific theory.
2. Presuming this is about "On the Jewish Question" (one of Marx's earliest writings which predates The Communist Manifesto and indeed his own formulation of Marxism), the myth that it's a virulently antisemitic text has been repeatedly debunked (short version from Jacobin, long version from Jewish socialist Hal Draper). He was in fact arguing for the emancipation and granting of citizenship rights to Jews within the overwhelmingly antisemitic climate of early 19th century European politics.
Marx is worth reading on his own merits, but Marx’s work absolutely does not ground economics in what most people would think of as science. It is “scientific” only in the broadest sense imaginable, in that it attempts to explain something. What it attempts to explain, in fact, is not the entire field of economics but why the supposedly rational calculus of classical Western economics at the time does not and cannot work as expected, and can be read more easily as a critique of economics as a field than as a scientific grounding of it. It does not, in fact, have to be “science” to be an important and insightful work, and harping on “immortal science” to indicate its significance makes you sound like a crank.
INTERFACING - You fuck it up. Your juvenile glee at finding a slide leads you to swing down into the pipe far too fast.
INLAND EMPIRE - Like the child you used to be.
AUTHORITY - But you are not a child any more.
ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY - Fuck that shit, bomb it down there and scream the whole time!
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - We can take it. We can always take it. PAIN THRESHOLD - Pain, radiant and sharp, jolts through you. You can not, in fact, take it.
[Health -1]
REACTION SPEED - You fly out of the slide, propelled by your weight and your enthusiasm.
ENDURANCE - The metal jars against you, then you're sliding over the harsh ground instead.
COMPOSURE - You land heavily at Kim's feet, and begin to whine like a child with a scraped knee.
ESPRIT DE CORPS - His infinitesimal regard for you as a normal human being is so dead at this point he's not even surprised.
KIM KITSURAGI - "Normal people, when they go down a slide, they're fine."
AUTHORITY - He's questioning your authority!
VOLITION - Sitting on the floor and crying after being beaten up by a slide, you have precious little authority to question.
[Morale -1]
The Count in his Count Mobile.
either this was an identity theft situation or I just talked to a guy over the phone whose name is Manuel and pronounces it “manual.”
I really don’t know why I drew this
Me randomly