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IMBW Audio: Baby, It's a Nightmare of Malfunctioning Health Care Systems Outside

Plus: Gompers got gomped
Jeff Maurer
Dec 15, 2024
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I Might Be Wrong is a reader-supported publication; I don’t sell ads or do any of the things that I should probably do. To support my work and receive new posts, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Paid subscribers get twice the stuff, my thanks, and a general feeling of superiority.

Mad Meg (1561) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from the Museum Mayer van Den Bergh; Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban in the film “Neptune’s Daughter”.

This Proletariat Revolution Sure Is Taking Its Sweet-Ass Time

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This Proletariat Revolution Sure Is Taking Its Sweet-Ass Time

I would summarize Lenin’s contributions to communist theory as: “Fuck this — let’s just do it ourselves.” Marx believed in a historical process in which agricultural laborers would move to cities and became the proletariat, and proletariat anger would overthrow capitalism. Lenin noticed that the Russian underclass weren’t storming out of their factories and overthrowing the Czar; they were mostly harvesting wheat by hand and going to church. So, he decided to give history a li’l boost, with “li’l boost” being the cutest euphemism that you’ll ever hear for a bloody revolution.

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