Tuesday, January 15, 2013

The Great Marx Debate

Each year we honor the birthday of Karl Marx, usually by reposting on his prowess in the market:

Letter, Karl Marx to his uncle, Lion Phillips, 25June1864:
"I have, which will surprise you not a little, been speculating partly in American funds, but more especially in English stocks, which are springing up like mushrooms this year (in furtherance of every imaginable and unimaginable joint stock enterprise) are forced up to a quite unreasonable level and then, for most part, collapse. In this way, I have made over £400 now that the complexity of the political situation affords greater scope, I shall begin all over again. It’s a type of operation that makes small demands on one’s time, and it’s worth while running some risk in order to relieve the enemy of his money." 
Doing a quick search of unpublished posts (we have 5000) to see if "Marx and Engels Meet the Jetsons" was real or something I had dreamed I came across this from Sawyer Speaks:

Groucho versus Karl: the great Marx debate
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx 
I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.
Groucho Marx

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

Karl Marx 
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Groucho Marx

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx 
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx 
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
Groucho Marx
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx 
It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Groucho Marx
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Is the color scheme a little too, as they say in Hollywood, On the Nose?