How long do you think you could foll Marx?

[La Comédie Noire]

Let's say you brought Marx forward in time to the year 2010 and brought him around to some places in a first world nation. How long do you think you could fool him into believing it was communism?

[Il Medico]

For about 0 seconds.

[Outinleftfield]

The first clue would be all the advertisements everywhere we take for granted. There are signs on trucks, billboards, posters inside every store, everywhere for products. Marx would think "why do we need all these signs advertising for products in a communist society?"

You'd also have to keep him away from stores. The moment he sees people are still using money he'll know its not communist, socialist maybe but communism doesn't need money.

[FreeFocus]

You better make sure he doesn't see homeless people, pollution, or dilapidated areas..so basically, it wouldn't work at all. You can't even take him to bourgeois financial centers, or the suburbs, because that makes it clear that classes still exist.

[Widerstand]

If you took him to China he'd probably kill himself.

[Pretty Flaco]

Maybe if by "places" you meant a secluded grassy plain and a nearby forest.
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Then you could capitalize on the moment and pitch the show idea, "KARL MARX'S 'NATURAL WONDERS' "

[Jimmie Higgins]

I work in "The People's Republic of Berkeley" as the right wing calls it since in their minds this is the most outlandishly moonbeam liberal and socialist place in the US. I had to step over about 12 homeless people on my 15 minute walk to work from the subway - the massive inequality and insanity of modern society is on full display if you look with the right eyes. Most of the time people have to tune it out (everyone), accept it (liberals), rationalize it (right-wingers), or go crazy (radicals:thumbup1:).

Marx - in fact anyone from that time-period, would probably be shocked at the continuation of massive inequality. Wouldn't you be shocked if you went 100 years into the future and there was medicine that allowed people to live to 1,000 and teleporters and flying cars and interactive 3D holograms and shit... but you still saw people next to the flying car port selling apples and living on the streets in dirty clothes?

[gorillafuck]

I'd have more fun convincing him that humans have colonized outer space and he is no longer on Earth.

[bailey_187]

Maybe if by "places" you meant a secluded grassy plain and a nearby forest.
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Then you could capitalize on the moment and pitch the show idea, "KARL MARX'S 'NATURAL WONDERS' "

even then he would know since he would see that there is an articificial distinction between town and countryside

[NecroCommie]

I'd have more fun convincing him that humans have colonized outer space and he is no longer on Earth.
That would be awesome! :lol: Then you should proceed to explain terraforming. :thumbup1:
Other fun thing would be to show every epic thing humanity has done ever since (whether moral or not). Like, explain the concept of nuclear warfare, or the fact that chinese shortened the length of day by building a big ass dam. Merely showing some numbers from the eastern front would propably cause him to faint. Actually, he might not even understand that for two times the entire friggin world has waged war at the same time!!! US and russians have some badass ships. You know, the kind that could count as entire cities in their own right.

[Jeoh]

For a pretty long time. I'd just give him a tour of French Polynesia and he won't have anyone else to talk to.

[La Comédie Noire]

I'd tell him that medical researchers have determined that if your hand is bigger than your face then you have cancer. :cool:

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I'd force him to enjoy the wonders of crystal meth, then start writing Capital vol. 4

[praxis1966]

I'd force him to enjoy the wonders of crystal meth, then finish writing Capital vol. 4

Corrected. He began what was ostensibly Capital, Volume IV but never completed it. It was later published under the title Theories of Surplus Value.

[More Fire for the People]

I think his comment would be, "Nice veneer".