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| HAPPY 180th BIRTHDAY, KARL!!!!!! MAY 5, 1818-1998 |
| ...and many increasingly relevant returns of the day. |
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To the standard celebratory boilerplate I've added more than just
the turn of the year, for there has been a massive turn of the screw
worldwide as well in the past year. Particularly poignant is the
ongoing ordeal of the Russians, as they continue to suffer and die
like flies, bereft of whatever supports a highly flawed attempt at
socialism nevertheless accorded them.
A few weeks ago an acquaintance asked (so assertively that it was
no longer really a question), "Isn't he (Marx) just your Jesus?"
I replied, "When have I belabored you with him in that tedious way,
or treated his name as though it had some intrinsic magical power?"
He conceded these and other points of rebuttal I made, but he still
has not opened the Manifesto to the first page, fearing plague.
The real plague, the global race to the bottom, has yet to touch
him personally. Happy trails, partner!
valis
