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The New York Times, a former newspaper, ran a story this week celebrating the birthday

of Karl Marx. The story was entitled Happy Birthday Karl Marx, You Were Right. The writer,

a South Korean philosophy professor, claims that Marx was correct in his assessment that

capitalism depends on the ruling class's exploitation of the worker. That's why, when you look

at a country like America, which has five times as many billionaires as the Middle East

in Africa combined, you see so many exploited workers dealing with such terrible problems

as obesity and which movie to watch on Netflix or possibly cable. Whereas when you look

at Marxist countries like Venezuela, you don't have workers suffering from obesity because

eating cats really keeps you slim. Plus, you get a lot of exercise just chasing the little

devils around.

Marx was also correct in saying that if the state owns the means of production, it makes

it easier to slaughter the people who disagree with you on mass. Although Marx never actually

said that, it was just implied in the philosophy. Finally, Marx was absolutely right when he

said that the bourgeoisie of capitalism would create their own grave diggers. If by grave

diggers, he meant idiot intellectuals and the people who published them at the New York

Times, a former newspaper. So, Happy Birthday Karl Marx.

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