Incidentally, I stumbled on this while looking for a Marx quote about how representatives of the old feudal order falsely positioned themselves as allies to the lower classes by attacking the excesses of industrial capitalism. If anyone has that quote, please let me know.
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Capitalcel detected. True feudal chads know that the realm is exclusively at the disposal of the sovereign who is picked by God. Priests take vows of poverty for the sake of serving God so they shouldn’t own anything. Aristocrats are enfeoffed by the sovereign and so cannot be said to truly own anything.
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Defecating is as necessary as labor, but we wouldn’t want to live in a “shitter’s republic” that tries to reduce life to the process of eating and discharging waste from the bowels. This is basically what Marx said he wants to do.
me: yeah, i read theory
the theory:
Broke: Girls don’t poop.
Woke: Monarchs don’t poop.
For your quotes, try Chapter 3 of The Communist Manifesto
Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. In the French Revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation[A], these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart. Thenceforth, a serious political struggle was altogether out of the question. A literary battle alone remained possible…
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate their indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.
In this way arose feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half an echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart’s core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history. The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter.
It is interesting to compare this with the section Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas in part I.B of The German Ideology. The following isn’t what you were asking for, and instead discusses how a class, when contending for dominance, must express its own ruling ideas and interests as the universal ideas and interests of all classes, i.e. of “all of society”. In actuality those ideas (of the bourgeoisie, aristocrats, etc.) are not truly universal though. This is written in the context of a new class, such as bourgeoisie, striking for dominance in an old order, such as the feudal order. But when the aristocrats try to fight back and maintain power, they will still aim for the same tactic. To express their ideas and freedoms as universal freedoms for the proletariat and as presenting themselves as guardians against the nefarious and harmful bourgeoisie, as explained above in The Communist Manifesto. Quoting from The German Ideology:
For each new class which puts itself in the place of one ruling before it, is compelled, merely in order to carry through its aim, to represent its interest as the common interest of all the members of society, that is, expressed in ideal form: it has to give its ideas the form of universality, and represent them as the only rational, universally valid ones. The class making a revolution appears from the very start, if only because it is opposed to a class, not as a class but as the representative of the whole of society; it appears as the whole mass of society confronting the one ruling class.
It can do this because, to start with, its interest really is more connected with the common interest of all other non-ruling classes, because under the pressure of hitherto existing conditions its interest has not yet been able to develop as the particular interest of a particular class. Its victory, therefore, benefits also many individuals of the other classes which are not winning a dominant position, but only insofar as it now puts these individuals in a position to raise themselves into the ruling class.
When the French bourgeoisie overthrew the power of the aristocracy, it thereby made it possible for many proletarians to raise themselves above the proletariat, but only insofar as they become bourgeois. Every new class, therefore, achieves its hegemony only on a broader basis than that of the class ruling previously, whereas the opposition of the non-ruling class against the new ruling class later develops all the more sharply and profoundly.
Love to see the German ideology, my favorite.
It’s one of my favorites too. Really lays down historical materialism and has a lot of bangers
That’s the one! Thank you.
That section in the Manifesto is a fun read. Some of the same struggle sessions 170 years later lol
Now find the quote about the shitter’s republic
You may be thinking of Chapter II of the Manifesto, Toiletarians and Cumunists the term “shitter’s republic” is actually a misnomer and Marx himself never used that term. Our monarchist would have known if he had actually read Marx.
By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of defecation, the free bowel movement, free shitting and farting.
But if toilets are abolished, then shitting and farting go with them. So all this talk of “free shitting and farting,” and all the other brave words of our porcelain bourgeoisie about restroom liberty, only made sense when compared to the fettered flatulence of feudal chamber pots.
They shriek, horrified, at the idea of communal bathrooms—“You want to abolish private toilets?!” But look around: for nine-tenths of the population, private commodes already don’t exist. They’re stuck sharing stall after stall in the public latrines of this clogged society.
The whole post history is incredible
DAE think Graham crackers have become too sinfully sweet?
None of these people ever seem to think they’d be one of the people getting the shitty end of the stick at the bottom of the pyramid
Also, The periodic table? The categorization of elements has undergone constant iteration and refinement for centuries. There’s a reason you don’t hear about the plum pudding model or the four classical elements anymore. Hell, five new elements have been discovered in the past 25 years alone.
∞ 🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish4·24 days agoYou are a proletariat, you are not going to be a scholar, you will not be a knight fighting (edit: actually dying, your value your life so little??) “”“”“”“”“honorably”“”“”“”“” for your lord (lmao, why would you?), you are not even going to be a property owner, you are going to be a serf. You are going to live in a shitty house, with shitty clothing, doing shitty labour. Your life is going to be worse then it is today.
You will never. Wash. Your penis.
If you lurk these “royalist” subs you sometimes get people fantasizing about living a humble peasant life. But they’re always like, peasants in late-medieval central Europe living in those idyllic looking houses they preserve in Bavaria. Nobody ever images being a Russian surf or a slave on a Roman olive plantation.
Russian surf
🌊🌊🌊🌊The thing about being a peasant is you were tied to a piece of land. There were actually peasants who were living pretty good because they lucked out and were tied to a very nice piece of land. Being a peasant with a good piece of land in a wealthy region may have netted you a better lifestyle than a yeoman in a poorer area.
Thing is these were always a minority of peasants.
Lolbertarian mindset
There’s too many fucking libertarian to monarchists in the pipeline. I think I’ve seen maybe one or two actual nobles with real titles who are monarchists that made me go “Okay it makes sense an actual prince would support an ideology aligning with his class interests.” But these random ass “I’m actually a knight without a fife” are total dipshits.
The logical outcome of anarcho-capitalism would be neofeudalism (logical in the sense of how its internal logic would play out, not that it’s logical in the abstract sense).
Oh for sure lmao. They inevitably land on monarchism or fascism (inb4 “you said the same thing twice”). I think you either grow out of libertarianism when you see something that goes too far (private prisons, age of consent, abolishing anti-racsim laws, etc.) or you continue down the Alt-Right pipeline.
There’s a recurring theme of young’ns abandoning libertarianism when they first have to get a real job and suddenly discover they’re not actually on equal footing as their boss.
lol wtf is this
Perchance.
Perchance.
Perchance.
Seems fake but I want to believe
It’s real.
Site tagline material.
Of course it ends with warrior-larp shit.
The honorable samurai who… checks notes …randomly beheaded people and would later turn into the Yakuza when the Emperor outlawed their caste?
Uphold mafioso-monarchism
This person envisions a proper society being ruled by a pyramid of increasingly insular groups of pedophiles who wear stupid costumes.
Also a shitter society is probably what Martin Luther wanted
This is an incredible level of delusion.
Imagine seriously using the claim of “I’m so correct that even aliens would agree”.
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Yeah! Us communists would never presume that aliens would necessarily agree with us!
Look, I consider myself reasonable…but I really, really need to see the shapes of these dude’s skulls, just for my own information.
I’d personally like to test the compressive strength of his skull.
“Basically, Marx said he wanted to make the poo poo pants shitter republic”
All my life I’ve felt the shitting spirit laying dormant in my soul. After reading Marx, now I can finally let myself be free (by shitting out my ass)
As Lenin said, “The workers demand to shit, the bourgeoisie command to wipe.”
“There are days when decades happen on the toilet”
Robespierre did nothing wrong
“I don’t believe in material forces” says a boy who studies the blade and is being acted upon by material forces
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Most monarchists have no concept of monarchism beyond a ponzi scheme that everyone gets born into.
Hasn’t this always been a fash talking point? Capitalism is literally too woke for them, sometimes brown people make money! We need to RETVRN to a feudal caste system!