• thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    You joke but petty theft used to be punished with execution in early modern England. All part and parcel of the enclosure and proletarianisation efforts to enshrine the reign of capital :)

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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      3 years ago

      You know I'm also quoting from book that's a social commentary on the conditions of the proletariat in France and also a hit Broadway movie musical with Wolverine "Les Miserable"

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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          3 years ago

          I'd say if you got the time and want to read a genuine masterpiece, go for it. If not watch the musical.

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            If not watch the musical.

            Are you... recommending people listen to Russell Crowe sing? If so, dawg what the actual fuck is wrong with you???

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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              3 years ago

              Are you against listening to Russell Crowe loudly crow his lines? Do you not know what fine art is? Can you not see, or hear in this case, the beauty within the awful?

              Also there's the original musical you nerd

              • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                Are you against listening to Russell Crowe loudly crow his lines?

                PCUSA is CANCELLED

                Also there’s the original musical you nerd

                Ah OK, thought you were talking about the Crowe one, cause it's the one in the picture.

                    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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                      3 years ago

                      I'd rather get that then get chewed out again lmao, our gensec's ruthless when it comes to critiquing us for ultraleft or right opportunist deviations

                        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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                          3 years ago

                          I tell you what, the last time I got my own personal ass-kicking it was for saying the American revolution was a bourgeoise counter-revolution, according to former comrade, and former CPUSA member Gerald Horne's book "Counter-revolution of 1776". If he didn't ruthlessly dunk on me publically (without saying my name but everyone knows who was talking) by quoting Lenin and Stalin to provide context within the marxian historical materialist lense, I wouldn't have stumbled on this article shredding Horne's book for being liberal cherrypicking, and developed an ultra-left perspective on the American revolution.

            • Nounverb [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              There are like 20 million versions of Les mis done every year alone. It wouldn't be hard to fine one without the Crowe :bird-mad:

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          unrelated but did you know its publishing deal remains the highest figure ever paid for a work of literature

          https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/03/23/hugo-inc/

          • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Thanks for sharing, that was really interesting! A cool $4 million for a book that could have just been banned entirely, transported by hand... literature was definitely cooler back then.