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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I love how the Spector seems to imply an evil in the heads of most Normans. I see it in my friends group and I will admit I had heard the line in the past and thought the same. Then I decided to actually read instead of parrot and realized it's a Spector in the same literary sense as the Spectors from A Christmas Carol that haunt Ebenezer Scrooge.

The Spector of Communism exposes the world to the material realities of it's past and present, which lay the stones that lead to the grim shadows of a future yet to come. Shadows, dear reader, that we might change by leading an altered life.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Reminds me of https://existentialcomics.com/comic/148

“A spectre is haunting the Young Hegelians: the spectre of my glorious beard.” “I thought we agreed not to do the spectre thing anymore”

Edit: Fixed typo

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

In his personal life, Marx was extremely poor at his own finances... He apparently would go on pub crawls where he had one beer at each bar on his street (there were twenty three bars), and would chain smoke and eat poorly.

Literally me fr fr

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Shaving is indeed a problem.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I still prefer the idea of it being a frightful hobgoblin.

A mischievous little elf who steals power from the capitalists and places it in the hands of the proletariat. The frightful part only applies to capitalists though, because they slowly realize they are losing their grip. Once the hobgoblin was worked it's mischief, the power that the bourgeoisie once possessed cannot be regained because the workers of the world realize that they actually had the power all along and that frightful hobgoblin merely lifted the veil that had deceived them into thinking otherwise.