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<blockquote data-quote="Arnold Schwarzwald" data-source="post: 82100" data-attributes="member: 544">Lmaoo the journalist thing is such a cope.Being a freelance foreign correspondent writing opinion pieces for an American paper for a decade is not &quot;working.&quot; That&#039;s the 1850s equivalent of having a Substack or writing for a communist free zine. He was living off Engels the entire time simultaneously, the Tribune gig barely covered anything, and he was notoriously unreliable about deadlines and the fact Engels ghostwrote a significant number of those articles for him because Marx couldn&#039;t be bothered is even more funny!Idk bro if you think that means anything that&#039;s a you thing.People who defend Marx always find the one technically employment adjacent thing in his biography and lead with it.It&#039;s telling that that&#039;s the best available. The man theorized about labor while systematically avoiding it his entire adult life. That&#039;s not incidental to his ideas, it&#039;s deeply relevant to why his ideas are what they are.Idk if what it is about this forum but maybe it&#039;s a incel thing or maybe it&#039;s a neet thing but this fixation on niggling tiny details that often have nothing to do with the grander discussion is odd.[ATTACH=full]17474[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arnold Schwarzwald, post: 82100, member: 544"] Lmaoo the journalist thing is such a cope. Being a freelance foreign correspondent writing opinion pieces for an American paper for a decade is not "working." That's the 1850s equivalent of having a Substack or writing for a communist free zine. He was living off Engels the entire time simultaneously, the Tribune gig barely covered anything, and he was notoriously unreliable about deadlines and the fact Engels ghostwrote a significant number of those articles for him because Marx couldn't be bothered is even more funny! Idk bro if you think that means anything that's a you thing. People who defend Marx always find the one technically employment adjacent thing in his biography and lead with it. It's telling that that's the best available. The man theorized about labor while systematically avoiding it his entire adult life. That's not incidental to his ideas, it's deeply relevant to why his ideas are what they are. Idk if what it is about this forum but maybe it's a incel thing or maybe it's a neet thing but this fixation on niggling tiny details that often have nothing to do with the grander discussion is odd. [ATTACH type="full"]17474[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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