Red Quill Books recently published the first in what will be a four-part comic book series based on The Communist Manifesto. Apparently it's selling well, including to college professors who plan to use it in their classrooms. It's important to have this historical perspective and, I guess, this is an easy way to do it. I'm not too worried about students, aside from those who live and die by locally grown food, buying into the old-school bourgeoisie vs. proletariat struggle.
Promotional videos for the comics are available on youtube. What's really interesting about this one, at least to me, is the use of the 'the whole world is watching' chant for the whole soundtrack, start to finish. Oh please. I doubt very much the proletariats violently filling the streets in Moscow, or wherever, were hoping that someone was going to post their struggles on youtube, or even on the old-school broadcast news, which is when that chant was first broadcast, during the antiwar demonstrations outside of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Well, maybe people who won't eat oranges in January will believe it.
Anyone who enjoys eating lettuce, oranges and even arugula all winter can watch this.
Just substitute "financial meltdown" for "war" and The Road to Serfdom is brought up-to-date. Right?
Yup.
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