After the financial panic triggered by Obama's election in 2007 swept the globe and made Marx "cool" again with some in the first world, a new genre of news and magazine articles formed, which I call the "Marx is still wrong" genre. The common traits of works in this genre are a faint tone of incredulity and bemusement, caricatures of Marx as a demagogue and secular messiah figure, caveats about the people involved not being Bolsheviks, and a fevered insistence that, while there is a real class of people who could be called plutocrats, the fact that the middle class is still becoming richer* is all the proof that is needed that history really did end in 1991.

The function of this genre is twofold: first, it serves to dispel fears among the upper echelons and hope among the rabble that there will ever again be radical change in the economic world order. The youth of the intellectuals being discussed is emphasized, and it is implied that they are ivory tower types who are just playing intellectual games. Secondly, it's a great opportunity for hippy-punching, always a feel-good endeavor. My goal here is to list examples of this genre for your edification.

My first submission is Ross Douthat's Marx Rises Again. If you don't enjoy the writing style of boring centrist types then you may find this a tough slog, but for propaganda connoisseurs it will be a nice snack.

*When the fact that the growth of the middle class is miniscule compared to the plutocrats is brought up, it is claimed that everyone involved will always be content with this.

kill commies

Why? It's messy. Plus death will eventually do it anyways. And they may well do some good along the way too!

it is a communist duty to bring the blossoms of historical inevitability into full fruit. being killed is exactly what a commie *wants* you to do to them.

This is true, even Eddy is willing to die if The Left orders him to.

yeah, and christians want you to kill them for them to get to heaven and rightists only have interests instead of ideals or principles,  brazilians like chicks with dicks, brits have terrible teeth, monarchists are all cunts and africans have huge cauldrons in which they put missionaries, of which they feed on entirely even when they haven't even discovered ironworking.

this is fun! maybe we could start a library for idiotic stereotypes.

Everyone in South America is two heartbeats away from launching either a leftist insurgency or reactionary coup. And they all drive around in jeeps.

everyone in south america gets a rod inserted in their anuses by the government

also of course christians all have martyr complexes. only the brave, or angry, or Troubled ones go out looking for actual martyrdom, but acting to get pushback in general is always welcome.

commies work the same way

so basically, marxists are culturally christian, and cultural christians should be killed?

martyrdom isn't instrumental to christian salvation the same way that it is to marxist salvation.

the only man who needed killing in christianity was jesus — if you are a martyr this is just so much additional glory and doesn't actually advance the Kingdom.

marxism demands much more blood than that to pay for the sins of the world, and it probably includes yours. killing class enemies, or getting killed by them, is a glorious dialectic push towards the Workers State.

quoting halcyon:

so basically, marxists are culturally christian, and cultural christians should be killed?

That isn't really the way you should interpret it. In fact, attempting to simplify anything pthag says is usually a bad idea.

the way you should simplify it is to go read nietzsche

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that reminds me

where are the too-many-SA-style-emoticons

Will work on it.

do too-many-NG-spinoff-forum-style-emoticons: add all of these. (i am assuming you do not want the other two constants of das kvlture, :roidgroid: and :meatspin:.)

Oh my glob. All this time, your avatar has been the fucking Mozilla gecko?

I almost feel ashamed. Almost.

But to be honest, there would be nowhere to list them all... and you can already use them as-is!

what should be done to christians, then? told they will be punished for the sins of the community, and then forced to live in a secular state?

...I'm not entirely sure anyone ever even suggested passing judgment on or taking action regarding Christians.