[goldstategop]

I can believe if Karl Marx were alive today, he would join the Tea Party. Today's OWSers have nothing in common with the ostensibly repressed proletarians of the nineteenth century.

Nothing at all! So dear readers, derive what lesson you like from this parable and may God be with you!

[mckenzie7]

Too accurate and a great read and laugh.

[guitarplayer1953]

The funniest play on words for marks and lenin was a fireside theater album cover with grocho marks and john lennon on the cover.

[Olog-hai]

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I can believe if Karl Marx were alive today, he would join the Tea Party

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Trolling?

If you think Marx would back off on his dream of centralization, think again.

[Lexinom]

He had viewed the state as some kind of machine with no life of its own. Yet the state was controlled by people and through political power this new class also controlled the means of production, albeit in a much more unrestricted and dictatorial way than the bourgeoisie—diverse and divided, as he often explained—had ever done.

And therein lies the fallacy of the sock puppet fight between "corporations are evil" and "government is evil."

[Sherman Logan]

–“All the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labor.” Yet the working people had the strongest and most loving families.

Unfortunately untrue.

There is no precise definition of who the "working class" is in America today.

An emerging one appears to be those without a college degree.

This group, sadly, has a much worse record recently with regard to divorce, illegitimacy and all the other symptoms of family breakdown than the more elite degreed population.

I do not know whether the non-working underclass is included in these stats or not.

[Apollo5600]

Marx was actually a drunkard who often wrote satanic poetry, dreamed of world domination, hated everyone and lorded over people, who also got a maid pregnant and refused to take responsibility for the child. No one knows what ever happened to that kid. Sounds like an OWS protester to me.

[vanilla swirl]

amusing but Marx was a nutjob who never worked a day in his life, lived off the largess of Engels and would fit right in with the OWS crowd.