Borepatch has a couple of posts worth reading.

Therein, he reviews basic Marxist doctrine and compares it today. If you remember All Things Capital, the much shorter movie version of the book, you will recall Marx’s prediction that when all profit gets gobbled up by the worker, the workers’s situation must inevitably decline. When it declines, look out, because they will rise up and overthrow the robber scumbags in lieu of the state.

Well, Borepatch has noticed an interesting similarity here. Marx was right in the timeline of events, but completely got the parties bass-ackward. And there is your Tea Party.

Don’t see it? How about a re-write: when all profits get gobbled up by the State, the workers’ situation declines to the point that they rise up and vote the scumbags out in lieu of free markets. Oh, the argument goes much deeper than this, and he has nice cites and links for you to follow.

Consider the Czar impressed. All this time, he felt Marx was an idiot. Of course, Marx got the whole thing freaking backward, which is hysterical, but ya gotta give him credit: he knew what would piss people off. Congrats to the Progressives, who finally made Marx’s genie wish come to pass. In one of those blow-your-own-heads-off genie’s wishes kind of way.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.