Hadn't visited my parent's house in over a year for obvious reasons. When I got there today I couldn't help but notice this book facing outwards on my dad's bookshelf. Obviously he was fucking with me.

It's written by some fox news guy who thinks that Marxists are taking/already have taken over the country (tho he's just playing to the swine right? He's gotta know this is uhh not even close to true). I love how christian conservatives, who control almost every lever of power, do this weird projection thing where they are the victims and the true oppressors are a group that has literally zero power.

Chances that this guy has actually read any Marx beyond the communist manifesto are slim to none but I reeeally can't be bothered to do any hate reading about this fox news chud.

Opened to a random page and he of course mentions antifa and blm and calls marx a utopianist (?)

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Engels distinguished “utopian” socialism from “scientific” socialism in 1880

      Long before that, they devote part of the communist manifesto to diss on utopians.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      once upon a time christians were crucified, tortured, fed to lions, etc. so modern hyper-nationalist hyper-conservative christians who are incredibly divorced from the life and teachings of Christ like to project that narrative onto themselves.

      And even then, persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire was much, much less than they make it out to be.

      all attempts to make the world a better place are “utopian” and “naive” and “bound to fail.”

      In addition to just being an excuse to not even try to make the world a better place, this ties into their beliefs about "human nature" and the the inherent sinfulness of man that is so critical to their religion.