• 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
    27·
    13 hours ago

    I love this comic. It’s filling a niche. Between xkcd and smbc covering the hard sciences, existentialcomics is nicely covering philosophy and socioeconomic theory.

    Heh… Heh… Soon, soon… Soon my plan to being an entire K12 curriculum using only comic strip material will be complete! Mwahahaha!

  • lugal
    118·
    15 hours ago

    So that’s why he never worked, I see

      • lugal
        19·
        12 hours ago

        But he never worked a typical proletarian job

          • lugal
            13·
            4 hours ago

            Five. Six if you count Adam Smith

            • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
              2·
              1 hour ago

              What’s that a reference to?

              Also Adam Smith was a college professor, that’s not a typical proletarian job.

              People who went to college in the 17 and 1800s and had the means to gather data aren’t the sort to have typical proletarian jobs.

              • lugal
                2·
                21 minutes ago

                It doesn’t reference to anything, I’m just fooling around. But to enter serious mode: It doesn’t matter how many economists worked a proletarian job. The point is that Marx made statements about the proletariat without experiencing it or doing field studies. Neither did I btw but Simone Weil wrote a great critique of Marx. For example Marx thought that the most oppressed are the ones most likely to begin a revolution which is wrong. The most exploited don’t have the energy to do anything after work. This doesn’t destroy the Marxist framework, obviously. Later Marxists made up for this, like the Marxist feminism which also rectified that Marx only had men in mind. There are eco Marxists applying the framework to a topic, neither him nor his contemporaries had in mind.

                To position myself: I’m not a Marxist but I find myself aligning with some Marxists more than others. I’m a huge fan of John the Duncan for example.