• LiberalSoCalist@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    as a former turbo lib, I sincerely believe they looked at the words with their eyes, but never actually engaged with the text.

    The first time I read Marx as a teenager hopped up on Western liberal triumphalism, I treated Capital like Mein Kampf and was prepared to scoff at every paragraph, but Marx writes such turgid fucking sentences that I gave up after a couple pages because I couldn’t understand what he was saying well enough to get my rocks off.