I work at a used book store. Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto is a great seller, one of the best selling titles we ever get in, in fact. As a result, we keep raising the resale price on the thing each time a new one comes in, and it keeps selling. I’ve never had to mark down a Communist Manifesto for sitting on the shelf for too long. It’s a textbook example of supply and demand in action… and I think that Karl would kind of hate that.
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days agoCapital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 days ago
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Okay but what about the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith? I doubt its comparable but id assume ya guys move some copies entirely because of EU4.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Adam Smith does pretty well. I’d say it’s Marxism, mushroom guides, and beekeeping that remain consistently at the top of the rankings. Then you’ve got whatever fiction is currently hot. For a while there it was Where the Crawdads Sing or Demon Copperhead. Sarah J. Maas is currently enjoying an extended streak of very strong sales. The Twilight series went through a bit of a low ebb for a while there but for some reason it’s been selling quite well again lately. Harry Potter used to be a rock solid seller, but one can see that J. K.'s attempts to alienate her fan base have been at least partially successful. It’s interesting to see the trends develop over time.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
For the Twilight one there was a bit of a piss take renaissance on YouTube for a bit. Probably folks reading it to see how bad it is.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was just thinking about this last weekend when I heard a Run The Jewels beat on a TurboTax ad during an NFL game.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Isn’t Killer Mike one of those “black capitalism can save us” type guys anyway?
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Maybe? I don’t know much about his personality or politics, but I would have said a lot of RTJ songs are fairly strongly anti-capitalist (“Ju$t,” “Report to Shareholders,” etc.). But maybe that’s just me projecting my own anti-capitalist beliefs on their lyrics.
Yeah, as my politics get more progressive/radical, it’s gotten to the point where I either have to listen to stuff that’s almost explicitly apolitical (mostly stoner/doom metal songs about death in battle, wizards, and weed work pretty well) or else I actively avoid reading about the artists so I can pretend they’re more progressive than they are.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I just accept that all humans are flawed and don’t allow myself to worship artists in any capacity. They’re no better or worse than the rest of us, and most of them are educated in music, not politics, theory, economics, etc.