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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on February 07, 2009, 08:57:11 PM

Title: nerd rage
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on February 07, 2009, 08:57:11 PM

Quote from: Leon Trotsky

Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois.

Discuss.

Title: Re: nerd rage
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 07, 2009, 08:58:52 PM

Well, we all hate Willco, makes sense.

Title: Re: nerd rage
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 07, 2009, 09:12:42 PM

nerd rage runs deep and long

see: libertarianism, the very political philosophy of the butthurt and resentful

Title: Re: nerd rage
Post by: TVC15 on February 07, 2009, 09:14:12 PM

Well, didn't Trotsky die in like 1941-2?  We didn't quite know about the holocaust then.  I guess he's talking about the rage felt by the underclass, which you could probably draw some parallels to Hitler's stylee with.

Title: Re: nerd rage
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on February 07, 2009, 09:43:34 PM

'40.  this was written in 1933.  http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1933/330610.htm

it's actually not a bad article.

Title: Re: nerd rage
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on February 07, 2009, 09:52:20 PM

Quote from: TVC 15 on February 07, 2009, 09:14:12 PM

Well, didn't Trotsky die in like 1941-2?  We didn't quite know about the holocaust then.  I guess he's talking about the rage felt by the underclass, which you could probably draw some parallels to Hitler's stylee with.

He died in 1940 after one of Beria's agents nailed him with an ice pick

Title: Re: nerd rage
Post by: TVC15 on February 07, 2009, 09:59:39 PM

Yeah, Mercator.  In Mehico. I always kinda dug Trotsky when I was a young commie.  Haven't read anything by him in years.

:tauntaun Trotsky :tauntaun

Title: Re: nerd rage
Post by: ToxicAdam on February 07, 2009, 10:01:28 PM

The great English poets Orzabel and Smith once said, "Everybody wants to rule the world"