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lots of tips for the Marxist dads out there

Marxist dads what are some of your tips?

It really doesn't work out.

Yeah, sure.

Being a Marxist dad in our modern culture.

It's a little bit of an uphill battle. a listeners to say that capitalism left unfettered often produces surprisingly

inefficient results. You're not supposed to say that. I know. I know you want to I mean I guess the libertarians weren't donating on Patreon anyway so

No, that's true. They believe that we should we should lift ourselves up by our bootstraps

I can't believe these guys are all money for their

show so we're not going to lose any income by saying that we think this. But yeah,

the 20th century has kind of been a series of I mean I know we have to see it as the

failure of communism but you can also see a bunch of terrible excesses of the capitalist way of life as well.

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