Damn they got that sub back? Oh well it was fun posting commie watches while it lasted lol
Points 8 and 9 sound like deliberate misreadings of the manifesto. The actual text says:
“8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.”
- 8 is calling for a regimented, organized worker mass that operates like an army. Marx/Engels might have been calling for worker conscription too, but I don’t know enough about the context.
- 9 is calling for a closer bond between agriculture and industry, since that was a real problem of supply chains in 1848. There were still a whole lot of subsistence farming peasants. The abolition between town and country represents the same problem. Resource distribution was lopsided.
I think I’ve read Marx/Engels correctly. Certainly they didn’t mean “corporate farms.”
ONE THING I FRIGGIN’ HATE IS THE COMMUNISM MANIFESTO
The only one of those that’s communism is also the only one of those we don’t have
Literally every bullet point comes directly from the Communist Manifesto.
I guess I have to be the one to tell Karl Marx that he’s not a real communist.
the fun part is that in context it’s a list of short term, immediate demands that should be made of European nations in 1848
right wingers have misread it and characterize the fulfillment of those demands as being full communism (even when their examples aren’t truly the demands being fulfilled)
I’ve had a lot of fun telling them “No, no, those ten points are Step 1”
Yes, oversight and ownership are the same in fact
