You like Mao Zedong? Early CPC was was a little too lackluster for my taste. But when Mao lead CPC across the Long March, I think he really came into his own, strategically and theoretically. His works have a clear, crisp explanation power, and a new sheen of understanding of material reality that really gives the Mao Zedong’s Thought a big boost. He’s been compared to Marx and Lenin, but I think Mao has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '49, Mao created this; PRC, most accomplished AES state to this date. I think it’s undisputed masterpiece is Biggest Poverty Reduction ever. A feat so successful, most people probably don’t expect PRC to surpass it’s accomplishments. But they should, because it’s not just about the success of socialism and the importance of rock-solid foundations of a great Party. It’s also a personal statement about the country and it’s founder itself.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Marx and Engels. The writing is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of materialist dialectics most of the points will go over a typical reader’s head. There’s also Marx’s historical outlook, which is deftly woven into his economic analysis- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Hegel, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these contradictions, to realise that they’re not just groundbreaking- they say something deep about SOCIETY. As a consequence people who dislike Marx and Engels truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the brilliance in Marx’s existential catchphrase “Hippity hoppity give me your property” which itself is a cryptic reference to Proudhon’s Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Lenin’s genius wit unfolds itself around the world. What fools… how I pity them.
Hey, America!
I haven’t seen the movie, but isn’t that dude a serial killer who axes his guest immediately after this?
He’s stand-in for the psychopathy of Wall Street bros.
Ya, I wanna read the book, its supposed to be a very good profile of the violent fantasies of the detached, bored and idle rich.
The book is very very gratuitous, be warned. It’s a good book, but it’s not really an enjoyable one. It’s all told from Patrick Bateman’s first-person point of view and he describes every single character’s brand-name luxury attire with just as much intense detail as he does the murders he commits.
That is exactly what happens. Hey Paul!
must have been the landlord
It’s one of those movies with a nebulous ending. Did everything really happen? You have to decide.
Patrick Bateman is just quirky and axes a few people >.<
Patrick Basedman
Christian Based
Impressive. Very nice… Let’s see Paul Allen’s meme.
