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I was recently reminded how much I fucking hate Plato's Republic (media.piefed.social)
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[–] umbrellacloud@leminal.space 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, that's Engels, when he's readable, Engels is always on the cover too.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, Critique of the Gotha Program was readable, and I'm pretty sure that was just Marx.

[–] umbrellacloud@leminal.space 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The only part that woke me up was the part where Marx uses the concept of publicly available free hookers to insult somebody's wife. Edit: Oh shit, no, that's the Manifesto, that was Engels probably.