• FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    nerd “If you really want to understand the world, simply read the 576,459 words of the LoTR books. After all, who has the time to slog through all 288,000 [weird coincidence, almost exactly half] words in actual theory like Capital?”

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      5 months ago

      It’s only because of all the songs in LOTR. Capital would be just as long if Engels hadn’t convinced Marx to remove the part in capital where the proletariat sing for 3 pages about their plight.