First World Fantasies: A Maoist Third Worldist Cartoon

By Boadica

I find this post to be offensive. Tread lightly redkruze. Not everyone considers you to be a comrade here with the way you have been acting recently.

It's not offensive, just silly.

Actually, it's quite offensive.

No, it's just silly.

In the context of redkuze's posting history, I'm going to have to say offensive.

I find it hilarious. You gotta hand it to the "Maoist-Thirdworldist" Internet trend: They do propaganda well. In fact, I bet they would be great stand-up comedians. Their presentation of their ideology is just amenable to that. Which is rare among the far left as far as I can tell. Something we could all learn from. I mean, could you imagine a Hoxhaist or a Trotskyist stand-up routine? *shudder*

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Something we could all learn from. I mean, could you imagine a Hoxhaist or a Trotskyist stand-up routine? *shudder*

Hoxhaist stand-up would be awesome.

The US actually has the largest industrial base in the world. What is the source of its world empire? Xerox machines?

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Hoxhaist stand-up would be awesome.

So, Trotsky goes to the doctor. "Doctor", he says, "Have I got a splitting headache..."

The first world worker sells his labour and recieves a wage. The copy machine produces copies of paper. Don't really find that cartoon funny or offensive. Guess I'm more into Trot humor.

I'm not sure what this cartoon is saying. Is it saying that office labour isn't as difficult/valuable as factory/physical labour? Because I can definitely say, having some experience in both, that for me my office job has been much more boring, exhausting, tedious and generally depressing than virtually any physical labour I've ever done (I get about as exhausted from 30 hours of office work as I do from 50 hours of work at a factory job I had). The pay to work performed ratio is probably the most relevant argument of Maoist Third Worldists, but that is not addressed here.

I enjoyed it.

It also reminds me of Office Space.

Certainly any worker whose worked in an office knows how much printers suck. I wouldn't mind seizing one myself.