Comments on: This is the

By: Xenon

Xenon — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:29:43 +0000

I don’t think it’s saying that Marxism shouldn’t be taught because it’s communist; I think it’s just saying that it’d be great if we studied funny stuff instead of serious stuff.

By: marie

marie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:30:40 +0000

Whomever captioned this….is a retard.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:58:46 +0000

Actually, that’s not Zeppo Marx, it’s Irving Thalberg… Yep, just like David ^ said, but i didn’t read that, so…

By: Isengrim

Isengrim — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:37:47 +0000

Of course you can access Al-Jazeera in the US. But think about the things that are banned in the Islamic world!

Apologists never stop to think about that part.

By: PB

PB — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:25:19 +0000

yeah, and high schools in the US blatantly and exclusively promote laissez-faire and/or supply-side capitalist economics. What’s your point?

By: PB

PB — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:22:36 +0000

…is this your first time commenting here?
DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW THIS WORKS?

By: Sylderon

Sylderon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:29:13 +0000

This is the problem with the internet. I can’t quite tell if you’re being sarcastic or sincere. If the former, I applaud you. If the latter, I pity you.

By: Ser

Ser — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:36:40 +0000

Depends on where in Europe, but you’re not wrong.

…and ignorance in this case makes it easy to gloss over other stuff and cram a bunch of other people in with Marx(more often than not Engels, Lenin, etc), thus simplifying his concepts and making things look nice and shiny… or at least less convoluted than real life happens to be.

By: forge

forge — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:11:48 +0000

If a public option for health coverage is socialism, then so is the library and the fire department and the police and etc.

By: forge

forge — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:59:00 +0000

Right-wing media has been instructed to denounce and heap disrespect upon higher education because that way, the hoi polloi will avoid it and not become educated and thus not be ABLE TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES.

By: david

david — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:31:24 +0000

btw, zeppo isn’t in this picture. the fourth is the late, great irving thalberg…

By: mesa mattress

mesa mattress — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:07:28 +0000

hilarious, this is the best picture and caption combination that i have seen.

By: Kay

Kay — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:57:29 +0000

Wow. You people are really worked up about this. The term Marxism has been jokingly applied to the Marx brothers as a play on words for a while now, long before this picture ever popped up on the internet. The poster was making a case for the Marx Brothers, not a case againt Karl Marx. It’s kind of awesome that their zany comedy is still making uptight people bicker amongst themselves years after their deaths though.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:32:43 +0000

Not Zeppo in the middle; that’s Irving Thalberg, their producer. Just FYI

By: Russian

Russian — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:50:35 +0000

Win.

By: aikoe

aikoe — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:17:09 +0000

How dare higher education involve actual education rather than lousy “comedy.” For shame.

By: Minoru

Minoru — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:02:58 +0000

Nice generalisation there.

By: Ignatz

Ignatz — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:20:11 +0000

Well, for more overtly political humor, you have to go with Charlie Chaplin. Groucho himself said that he had no particular agendas in “Duck Soup”. I believe his exact quote was “We were just four Jews trying to get a laugh.” Check out “Modern Times” and “The Dictator” for social and political commentary.

By: Ignatz

Ignatz — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:14:48 +0000

Why no a chicken?

By: Ignatz

Ignatz — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:13:24 +0000

If you do not see the fnord, it cannot hurt you.

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:04:19 +0000

Well maybe not Zeppo but then again wasn’t that the point!!

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:57:11 +0000

Ah!! Paranoia. Yep!! The Secret Societies – The Sierra Club, The Communists, Death Leopards, the Illuminati et al. Ah those were the days Secret Messages to the GM a-go-go.

By: Serpentine

Serpentine — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:05:54 +0000

If said undergrads are in a unit on religion, cults, science-fiction or perhaps sociology, sure. If you’re doing a unit on politics, economics or history, then chances are Socialism, Marxism and/or Communism are gonna be relevant.

By: The Amazing Rando

The Amazing Rando — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:50:25 +0000

I went to a Catholic university (no, not a Catholic myself). No, they did NOT promote Marxist concepts, smart ass.

By: The Amazing Rando

The Amazing Rando — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:49:13 +0000

Over here we’re trolling. On PK, we’re topical.

By: The Amazing Rando

The Amazing Rando — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:48:38 +0000

There is no defeating the Amazing Rando. I sent Eastman back to the East with Brak, Cal, and Ruth.

By: fawkes

fawkes — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:04:56 +0000

Boy, some of you guys are really uptight.

By: arimareiji

arimareiji — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:15:21 +0000

Someone needs to pull the beam out of his own eye.

You call individuals whose behavior you find offensive “hyppocritical [sic] bigots”, “troll,” and say they “pull this out [of their] ass.” Why? Because they poke fun, not at Christianity, but at specific individuals who demand that creation be taught as if it were science in public schools.

And then you go on to specifically insinuate that all Atheists (“Case in point”) are intolerant. This, despite the fact that no one has mocked Christianity in this thread – only the individuals who call themselves Christian and try to demand that it be taught in schools.

Practice tolerance before you demand it. If you want people to be more tolerant of individuals within your religion, be tolerant of individuals outside your religion rather than trying to start a namecalling war. If you want people to respect your religion, don’t start by insulting others’ religions.

And incidentally, you need to start painting with less broad of a brush – I’m not Atheist. Odds are pretty small that you’re the Pope, so the fact that I disagree with you doesn’t give you an excuse to kick me out of Christianity.

By: Whoneedsapoliticalparty

Whoneedsapoliticalparty — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:12:25 +0000

My karma ran over my dogma…

By: Whoneedsapoliticalparty

Whoneedsapoliticalparty — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:06:52 +0000

Jeez people… That is extremely offensive. Where’s political correctness when you need it? It’s hyppocritical bigots like you who annoy me the most of all breeds of troll. You say “we should be tolerant of all religions,” but then you pull this out your ass? A spagetti monster? Then you insist you’re joking, but if someone were to poke fun at Atheism, it’s an atrocity!? Case in point from an Atheist friend of mine: “I don’t believe any of that religion CRAP…no offense.” In closing, BE TOLERANT. ACTUALLY TOLERANT.

By: Whoneedsapoliticalparty

Whoneedsapoliticalparty — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:48:43 +0000

Well, since you’re still at NOVICE rank, you have lofty dreams of being given the great honor of the ONE FREE INTERNET COUPON, but are still stuck cleaning out the YOSHI STABLES. You are currently at LV. 2. At this rate, you’d be lucky to get the TRIFORCE OF DINNER after WEEGEE descends.

By: Whoneedsapoliticalparty

Whoneedsapoliticalparty — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:46 +0000

Oh, well does this mean we can teach the still-somewhat-impressionable college undergrads about Scientology too? We’re not telling them to believe in it!

FACEPALM

By: Ichi

Ichi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:08:11 +0000

This is MY kind of Marxism!

By: slupine

slupine — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:57:52 +0000

LOL! I hope you don’t mind that is officially going into my quote file to throw at people in the future.

By: fish eye no miko

fish eye no miko — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:14:56 +0000

If they tried to teach this to me, I’d leave in a huff. Or maybe a minute and a huff.

By: Madiantin

Madiantin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:23:46 +0000

Awesome.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:52:00 +0000

They’ve never stopped anyone, have they?

By: ray10k

ray10k — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:17:27 +0000

already 89 comments in, and no-one mentions paranoia? (rpg about a computer-ruled complex. one of the secret groups are the communists who “follow the teachings of the marx brothers and John Lennon”)

By: Josey

Josey — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:44:58 +0000

Location-dependent trolling?

By: arimareiji

arimareiji — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:17:13 +0000

Nowadays we call them government contracts, paws. (^_~)

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:06:13 +0000

All-or-nothing fallacy FAIL,

By: George college prof

George college prof — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:11:36 +0000

Why a duck?

By: herb

herb — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:51:37 +0000

Just because it’s not true doesn’t mean you can’t pretend it is.

My personal favorite is the term “Commie Czars”.

By: Pirate

Pirate — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:34:59 +0000

They be not true pirates! That be lie perpetuated by the landlubbing nonbelievers and their scurvy science that He alters with His Noodly Appendage to test our faith.

By: gobo

gobo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:50:03 +0000

Hehe.

By: gobo

gobo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:46:04 +0000

If only it was actually funny though….

By: frasque

frasque — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:19:20 +0000

Just because a college is teaching ABOUT something, it’s not teaching you TO DO IT. Cripes, who let the conservative idiots loose here lately?

By: Van

Van — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:13:20 +0000

Oh hush up and enjoy the joke.

By: only me

only me — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:55:59 +0000

because capitalism colleges made their wonder

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:37:13 +0000

Actually, that’s not strictly true. There are more pirates operating now than there were 20 years or so ago. What are now lacking are licenced privateers, so we need to start issuing more Letters of Marque to merchant captains. {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer}