On a relatively left wing sub
Marx regularly got drunk and threw rocks at London street-lights he pretty much was a football hooligan
The oppression inherent in capitalism makes working people stupider, louder, and more aggressive. This disproves socialism. I am very intelligent.
Multiple generations of capitalist oppression creates cultural trenches deeper than any single subsequent generation can easily emerge from.
Marx - and many of his contemporaries - were convinced Communism could only emerge in a modern industrialized state, because these states needed domestic surplus sufficient to satiate the public in the transition to subsequently more-pure forms of communal social order.
But two generations later, the largest and most successful revolutions emerged in the most backwater corners of the globe. Communists revolted at the fringes of Empire and industrialized around new economic models. They did not revolt in the imperial core and reform by leveraging surplus. Imperialists simply opted for fascist self-incineration when faced with a break down in the surplus supply chain.
A country like Britain, which is heavily invested in foreign rental income, foreign labor, and imported consumer goods, is not well positioned to adopt socializing the means of production they outsourced ages ago. They are, more likely, positioned to reverting to their Elizabethan roots as state-sponsored mercenaries and pirates.
but I hate them along race lines, not class lines. From the queen to the lowest beggar, I measure them all the same.
Ironically nothing you just said would be more offensive to an English person than the green tea you mentioned in your username
actually, British/French unionists invited Marx to their meeting.
Karl Marx, the International and the British Trade Union Movement
pdf: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40400876
Despite his lack of contact with the British workers, however, Marx sensed at once, as he told Engels, that "this time real 'powers' were involved both on the London and Paris sides." For that reason alone he was ready to waive his "usual standing rule to decline any such invitations
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Football laddism, which is not even totally bad in itself, is really not exclusive to the British working class. Maybe not so prominent at the very upper end but you def get rich football lads
It's also not really an English thing it's an international phenomenon
The character is probably different country-to-country so I didn't want to speak where I didn't know, but the rule does hold true elsewhere as far as I have seen.
Well, you know what they say
Liberalism :same-picture: Fascism
Gee, I wonder what happens to all the poorly spoken, poorly tempered, or unintelligent immigrants. I'm sure they get horses or something.
