Total Propaganda
by Helen Razer
Humor, topic, politicsPolitical science, historyMarxismCommunismSocialism
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Karl Marx was a white European Bloke from the nineteenth century who drank too much and probably got the cleaning lady up the duff. He was often in a very bad mood. If we saw him on a TED talk of the present, we might ask, 'Can't that crusty old dribbler break out a smile once in a while or possibly a comb?' before switching to another speaker. Perhaps one with tidier hair and a more optimistic to…
About this book
Millennials have it bad. In 2017, they face the problems of underemployment, unaffordable housing and economists who write crap columns telling them that it's their fault for taking an Uber to brunch. Today, the future's so dark, we need night vision goggles, not a few liberal guys shining a torch on a sandwich. Maybe today, we could use the light of Karl Marx. Marx may not have had much to say about brunch in the twenty-first century, but he sure had some powerful thoughts about where the system of capitalism would land us. Over time, it would produce a series of crises, he said, before pushing the wealth so decisively up, a top-heavy system would come crashing down with a push. Pushy old communist Helen Razer offers an introduction to the thought of Marx for Millennials, and anyone else tired of wage stagnation, growing global poverty and economists writing desperate columns saying everything would work better, if only we stopped eating sandwiches. Brunchers of the world must unite! They have nothing to lose but a life lived for the wealth of a few. Both for themselves and their comrades in the Global South, they have a world to win.
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Humor, topic, politicsPolitical science, historyMarxismCommunismSocialismCommunism and society
About the author
Helen Razer
6 July 1968
Helen Razer is a Melbourne-born and Canberra-raised radio presenter and writer. Razer was a radio broadcaster on national Australian youth station Triple J from 1990 to 1998, partnered for most of this time with comedian [Mikey Robins](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4479475A) on the breakfast program. She also appeared on the *Ladies Lounge* program with [Judith Lucy](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL8035229A) in the afternoons. <h3>Works contributed to:</h3> - Essay *Smash It Up* in [Fury: Women Write About Sex, Power and Violence](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21096753W) p181-191; Samantha Trenoweth (Hardie Grant Books, 2015) - Essay *A Keynesian In Wonderland* in [Bewitched…
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