an interview with Karl Marx - October, 2003

[OneBlueSky]

seems that ole Karl has been resurrected long enough to grant an interview and offer his take on all that's happened since his demise . . . interesting stuff, should you be so inclined . . . :)

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?accessible=yes&P_Article=12295

(snip)

"DS: What about America?

"KM: Always liked the Yankees: no feudalism, no hallowed traditions. Of course, a lot of cant and religion. But somehow they come out of every capitalist crisis stronger and stronger. Wonderful system of government. Fake democracy, fake elections, fake political system surrounded by humbug and greedy lawyers. This allows business to get on with its tasks, buying candidates, a bribe here, a bribe there. The people are not taken in. Half of them don't bother to vote. For the other half, politics is harmless fun, like watching Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I moved the headquarters of the first international of workers to New York not just to control it better but also because America was becoming the workers' country par excellence. It is really the only working-class country in the world. Their games, their culture, their manners, their food; everything about Americans is working class. Of course, old Europe remains rather snobby about them, a consolation prize for lost supremacy."

- much more . . .

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?accessible=yes&P_Article=12295

[mainegreen]

1. Thanks!

That was hilarious!

[RichM]

2. Here's a very interesting interview with the REAL Karl Marx, from 1880

Granted, it's more an ACCOUNT of an interview. (The writer, John Swinton, is most often cited because of his famous quotation about what "intellectual prostitutes" the media are, & always have been.)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/bio/media/marx/80_10_06.htm

No one who takes the 2 minutes to read this will be disappointed. The prose is beautiful.

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The famous Swinton quote is:

There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?

We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

http://www.constitution.org/pub/swinton_press.htm

[Lizz612]

3. Thats funny, I have on here dated 4.18.2002

Its from the book the Moonies gave me while I was in DC for the march.
"I, Marx, have met God.....Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who is on the Earth, brought this fact to light."
Its funny in a sad loonie sorta way.

[MSchreader]

4. Not bad!

The author of this "interview" really did his research on Marx's views, and got the political cadence of Old Moor almost perfect. I would almost recommend this as a decent exposition on Marx.

Martin