Marxism Everywhere

[Anonymous No.1429976]

Literary criticism for Dr. Seuss’ “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" from a Marxist viewpoint

[Anonymous No.1429983]

The Grinch is a filthy communist taking the commodities of the bourgeois out of envy and spite. He wants to reduce them to his own miserable level of existence.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1429985]

X for greedy bourgeois capitalist
Y for abused proletariat

It doesn't really matter which is which because you always twist it with enough patience

throw in a few critical terms such alienation, consumer ideology, use value sign value etc

If anyone disagrees say that it simply demonstrates how entrenched they are in Bourgeois ideology

[♥onionring♥ !Rrxa7zePwI No.1429998]

grinch shows christmas to be a manufactured event in the service of capitalist market expansion.

>mfw it's true

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1430005]

>>1429998
might want 2 stick to trepanning there chandlerbing

[♥onionring♥ !Rrxa7zePwI No.1430007]

>>1430005
got a problem with my marxist analysis??

[Anonymous No.1430012]

>>1430007
thats a "marxist" analysis of modern day christmas, but not of the "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas".

just sayin'

[♥onionring♥ !Rrxa7zePwI No.1430020]

>>1430012
okay. but it should be clear that i didn't read the story.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1430021]

>>1430007
So Onionring when's the last time you saw an event pop up out of nowhere

[Anonymous No.1430029]

>>1429998
>grinch shows christmas to be a manufactured event in the service of capitalist market expansion.
My face when the word "manufactured" so often implies that the speaker believes there is a literal cabal of manufacturers that spend their lives oppressing the speaker with projected bitterness for their own cold personal profit.

[♥onionring♥ !Rrxa7zePwI No.1430032]

>>1430029
>>1430021
really now.

[Anonymous No.1430040]

>>1430032
I love it when this happens.

[Anonymous No.1430099]

But he returns Christmas after taking it, is this communism?
The Grinch acting as a dictator?

[♥onionring♥ !Rrxa7zePwI No.1430120]

>>1430099
grinch reminds people of the authentic christmas before commercialization. true meaning of gifts is dat u care. etc etc

[fr4cture No.1430138]

>>1429985

>X for greedy bourgeois capitalist
>Y for abused proletariat

even basic Marxist theory, before any lit. theory adaptation is inconsistent with what you just wrote; there's far more than two basic classes, and that's not how they're presented, even slightly. try reading Marx.

>It doesn't really matter which is which because you always twist it with enough patience

no, *you* can, because you know fuck all, and that fuck all you do know is obviously simple enough to jam into the wrong-shaped hole. again, read some Marx.

[Anonymous No.1430150]

>>1430138

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1430157]

>>1430138
>basic Marxist theory, before any lit. theory adaptation is inconsistent with what you just wrote
Lol presumptuous moron, inferring from two incomplete sentences

>*you* can, because you know fuck all
It's actually because I'm a top class deconstructionist bro

>try reading Marx
I am particularly fond of the German Ideology and Early Marx and several Frankfurt Thinkers, but I also enjoy Althusser's work with it, even if Marxism is nothing more than a pitiful slave dialectic

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1430169]

>>1430138
>even basic Marxist theory, before any lit. theory adaptation is inconsistent with what you just wrote; there's far more than two basic classes, and that's not how they're presented, even slightly

Actually let's talk a little more about that. In fact it really does come down to:
>X for greedy bourgeois capitalist
>Y for abused proletariat
quite simply because Marxism is nothing more than ultimately an attempt to resituate power relations in a more favourable context, as I indicate through terms clearly invested with power relations, and the fact that there are more than two classes such as the peasants and the petit-bourgeois is of no consequence because the implied end result of the dialectic has in the finish quite simply the proletariat squaring off against the high bourgeois.