I've spent time with libertarians so I think I can kinda speak their language. They think Marx wrote an exact prescription for how humans are supposed to behave and live, like a rigid doctrine of morals you're supposed to uphold. They think he designed a utopian sim-city where there are specific grain harvests and specific numbers of people working the fields, but no one is allowed to have more money than anyone else. Also no distinction between anyone at all. Everyone has to wear the same clothes, which is a grey boiler suit. And if people simply disagree with being a part of this rigid standard, then it's moral to kill them and their family and anyone friends with them. Also to disagree can mean anything from refusing to work, to expressing a desire to own a business, or simply saying "I disagree." Boom, shot dead.
Libertarians have never read a book outside of Ayn Rand.
God imagine hearing some guys saying we could make everyone's lives totally equal, rolling your eyes and groaning, sitting up for multiple nights writing a long diatribe on why it's stupid, finding a publisher, paying them to print copies on a giant 19th century printing press, and telling everyone who will listen how fucking stupid that is, and 150 years later every dipshit is like "damn that's the guy who thinks everyone should be fully equal. Isn't that stupid?"
I've spent time with libertarians so I think I can kinda speak their language. They think Marx wrote an exact prescription for how humans are supposed to behave and live, like a rigid doctrine of morals you're supposed to uphold. They think he designed a utopian sim-city where there are specific grain harvests and specific numbers of people working the fields, but no one is allowed to have more money than anyone else. Also no distinction between anyone at all. Everyone has to wear the same clothes, which is a grey boiler suit. And if people simply disagree with being a part of this rigid standard, then it's moral to kill them and their family and anyone friends with them. Also to disagree can mean anything from refusing to work, to expressing a desire to own a business, or simply saying "I disagree." Boom, shot dead.
Libertarians have never read a book outside of Ayn Rand.
God imagine hearing some guys saying we could make everyone's lives totally equal, rolling your eyes and groaning, sitting up for multiple nights writing a long diatribe on why it's stupid, finding a publisher, paying them to print copies on a giant 19th century printing press, and telling everyone who will listen how fucking stupid that is, and 150 years later every dipshit is like "damn that's the guy who thinks everyone should be fully equal. Isn't that stupid?"
:marx-joker:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg&t=12
In fairness, if my only experience of reading was Ayn Rand, I might have given up reading too.