The Proletariat and the Manifestoon
Always searching for something interesting to blog about, I was reading a little of the print edition of Harper's magazine during the commercials of the barn burning Alabama-LSU game, then with a little followup online research about something else, I ran across the blog of Edward Carson and his discussion of Karl Marx.
There I found this interesting and subversive YouTube cartoon made from the words of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and illustrated with clips from Looney Tunes and Disney cartoons. It's remarkable that the words were written more than a century and a half ago, yet still have the power to explain certain historical, economic and social trends today - or at least shine some funny light on them.
Comments
The cartoon is great as an entry into historical overview of mankind. This shows the period of the greatest advance in the standard of living in history. The truth that is found in the thoughts of Marks and Engles has resulted in great results.
Mankind now recognizes self awareness and self fufillment as a human right.
The thoughts of Marks and Engles express the value that they place on self realization for all members of society.
Their economic effects are not dynamic. They understand the scope of society and attempt to record and predict the evolution of society over time.
Over time, society has changed. Every member of society lives a better life today than the members of society did at the beginning of the society that Marks and Engles experienced.
Posted by: Robert Poynton | November 4, 2007 09:16 AM