I Read Some Marx (And I Liked It)

If Katy Perry read Marx, her music would probably sound something like this.

Lyrics are as follows:

I thought I just wanted to pass;
Good grades were all I cared for.
My college made me take the class
More stuff for me to ignore!
But then I found out that
His theories weren't so bad:
Labor and class combat,
What a very clever man!

CHORUS
I read some Marx, and I liked it;
The friend of the proletariat.
I read some Marx, just to try it;
Hope Adam Smith don't mind it!
It felt so wrong,
It felt so right;
Men of the working class, unite!
I read some Marx, and I liked it;
I liked it!

There is a spectre hanging o'er
The face of Europe!
'Tis communism, and it's more
Than just a social hiccup.
A time will come soon when
The masses rise as one
To carve out their place in
The brand new poetry to come!

CHORUS

Marx is the man, he's working for you;
The bourgeoisie, they just ain't your crew.
Alienation of labor is bad,
Commodification is not a good fad.
The capitalists are greedy you see;
A shorter workday, now that's what we need!
I'm reading some Marx, and I'm liking it;
Rise up now, proletariat!

CHORUS

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Karl Marx
• Katy Perry
• communism
• marxism
• I Kissed A Girl
• parody

[bphillis]

@lukeeeh92 I'll definitely check it out. I'm a fan of dry economics literature; thanks for the recommendation!

[tourettetruthserum]

How long before those retards realize that Marx - son of a wealthy jewish lawyer, had NOTHING to do with working class and despised proletariat, just like Lenin despised Russian people... In his diaries - 70 years before Hitler - he had been using expressions like holocaust (against Spanish and Italians) and called them untermensch - worse rase of people... Wake up people! Communism has been applied to countless nations, did not work in single one.

[bphillis]

@tourettetruthserum Interesting that you don't actually allude to anything which Marx says in his writing; you merely trot out some ad hominem attacks and a baseless claim about communism. Before you levy criticisms you probably ought to take our advice and actually read some Marx. There's a lot more there than you seem to think.

Not using the word "retard" as an insult would be wise, as well. Doing so robs you of any credibility (or dignity).

[KeithHartranft]

@AtheismCentral Ha, don't bother correcting people like that, they'll always believe that authoritarian socialism is the only type of socialism that exists. Which is not true obviously, Orwell was very fearful of authoritarian government as clearly shown by his books, yet he was a socialist

[ImMarX]

i see

[marksissst]

This is a great work comrades, greetings from Turkey. No matter what your nation, colur, religion, language, country, sex etc. is, you are my brothers and my comrades. Don't give up the fight my friends, don't give up the fight...

[AtheismCentral]

@learrus

Good one, Orwell himself was actually a Socialist, he just had a terrible understanding of the USSR dude.

[learrus]

Also, excellent work; your pop music parody is more tolerable then real pop music; AND it's entertaining.

Good work guys...

[learrus]

Make sure to read Animal Farm after that Marx...

The 99% failed to read Animal Farm and now are Animal Farming...

[gaddjodilo]

love

[littlebigbrain]

@zombcod420 And the moment the leaders (Party members) take the money you have State Capitalism which is not a Social State thus not Socialism. People need to be educated so there are no leaders except ourselves. A Capitalist State is predicated on Capital being the prime social organiser thus the owners of Capital become the social leaders investing in increasing their Capital to the detriment of good Social systems of Social Intercourse.