The Communist Manifesto: The Computer Virus of the Mind
I can't remember the last (and only) time I read the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (wasn't married yet). But when I did I was certainly naïve. In fact, not only did it not seem all that interesting then given my interests and activities at the time, but I probably didn't really understand it. Maybe the ongoing education during the struggles of life, raising kids, and expanding one's perspective independently has a way of revealing pragma vs. vanity, a posteriori vs. a priori. I basically grew a bullshit-o-meter. Having recently read it I have to say I didn't see before how twisted (and obsolete here) the involved ideas are, which with the author's apparent rancor and contempt smells a lot like Democrat Party rhetoric. Somehow the Democrats have been able to take obsolete nineteenth century proletariats vs. bourgeois contexts and forge class wars today, while ignoring the education disparity caused by a broken public education system. The ...