/lit/ - Literature

I’m writing a fictional essay meant to have been written by Karl Marx. How can I best emulate his snarky style? What are some signature phrases he uses?

imagine what a lolcow Marx would have been if he existed in the age of the internet

Is Marx an overrated economist? He just seems like a lot of copy-pasted Smith.

>>22482279

>labor theory of value
So things are supposed to be valued according to some abstract principle of fairness, and not how people actually value things? What the fuck does this even mean?

>"while in communist society... it is possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner"
There was nothing stopping him doing these things.

>alienation of workers
The solution to the meaninglessness of assembly line work is to trust the plan that revolutionary political action by people who believe all this stuff is going to magically produce a utopia where nobody has anything to worry about?

I seriously cannot understand how this stuff has any sway with anyone over the age of 16 or over the IQ of 90.

>Be radical, have principles, be absolute, be that which the bourgeoisie calls an extremist: give yourself without counting or calculating, don't accept what they call ‘the reality of life' and act in such a way that you won't be accepted by that kind of ‘life', never abandon the principle of struggle.
Why do we hate this guy again?

>>22062819
karl marx

>she belongs to the streets now wyt boy

>be based theorist and write an amazing amount of critique on the greatest force in the world
>people go on to fall in love with guys like Lenin, Stalin, and mao who establish dicatorships and probably don’t understand Marx
Am I missing something? Why are they like this?