link to original reddit post by /u/SnooMacarons3329
Hello everyone,
I was doing a little reading in everyone’s favorite red book, and no it’s not Moa’s (though it as killed just as many people), no I’m reading “The Communist Manifesto” for some devil reading…. And boy is it garbage. Just in the first chapter alone Marx can’t even decide if the economy changes or not; and he can’t even describe who can be considered a proletariat or a bourgeoisie.
However, I’m not here to describe the Failology of the book, but instead to expose the Idiocracy of the people who keep on accepting it. And one of their arguments that they keep bring up to defend themselves (hypocritically) is the reason why they can own the things they own, and it’s is because it’s their “personal property”.
Even if there was a huge discussion between “private property” and “personal people” (with Exception being that one of them was bought with daddy’s credit card); The Communist Manifesto still doesn’t defend that bizarro realm of ownership, cause has he put it (in chapter 1, page 20, paragraph 3, sections 19 -21 of The Communist Manifesto) Marx states:
“They [The proletariats] have nothing of their own to secure and to fortify; their mission is to destroy all previous securities for, and insurance of, individual property.”
So next time you hear someone with a Starbucks in one hand, communist painter Convention in the other, with a che guevara shirt, and a “Smash Capitalism” pin say “this is my personal property.” Make sure you show him that quote about “individual property” and see how fast he bend backwards to attempt to rewrite Marx’s BS of an ideology.