Mass objectification is a result of commodification which is.......

[Nuclear Unicorn]

55. Marxists are funny.

They point to corporatism and scream, "Look at capitalism hath wrought!" even though corporatism and capitalism are not the same thing. The latter relies on competition within a free market, the former using government power to circumvent competition and a free market.

But if anyone says the centralized government monopoly on production and political power inevitably results in abuse of power the Marxists will be the first to scream that such is not Marxism. But it is. You believe all production and all political power falls to the Party. The Marxist's biggest fear is that I be allowed to take my money and my vote somewhere else. And once you start down that path you can't help but put tighter and tighter controls on my life.

You'll tell me I'm allowed to have freedom of conscience, but then you'll decide which buildings receive a permit to become houses of religious worship. Answer: none. You'll tell me I'm allowed to have freedom of intellect but then you'll tell me I'm not allowed to print any "lies" that defame The People's Glorious Revolution. You'll demand the schools be certified to ensure they aren't teaching "the wrong things." And when the people -- for whom all this is meant to benefit -- decide they're sick of it you'll crack down on the "capitalist saboteurs."

(Question -- If Marxism is so awesome and capitalism leads to privation why are Marxists always complaining that the rich, powerful capitalists are ruining everything for everybody else? can't you guys compete? Oh, wait. No you can't; almost by definition.)

And then when it comes crashing down because of the weight of all the dead bodies heaped upon its head, we'll restart this whole sad, sick ballet once again to refrains of, "Well, that wasn't real Marxism. Real Marxism has never been tried." Which I suppose is a testament to how stupid Marxists really are because all those despots sure thought they were Marxists and got all those people who were reading Marx to follow along (enough to kill 90 million of their fellow serfs).

But by all means, feel free to prove l'il ol' me to be wrong. Tell me by what mechanism you'll guarantee I don't have to play along with your storybook fantasy. Yeah, Wal-Mart sucks but I can always go get a job/shop at Target instead and Target has a profit motive to not be Wal-Mart. Under the centralized control of Marxism I don't even get that much.