{"id":67,"date":"2008-05-02T06:14:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T04:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/05\/02\/full_marx\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T06:14:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T04:14:23","slug":"full_marx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/05\/02\/full_marx\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Marx?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really should write something serious today, but it&#8217;ll have to come later.  Instead, I want to indulge you in some politics.<br \/>\nI was woken by the World Service<sup><a href=\"#fn422331272502413012d8a1\">1<\/a><\/sup> this morning, with this gem, a politician talking about<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;companies in industries such as gems and timber that exploit the labour of the downtrodden Burmese people but enrich only the generals&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Companies enriching the elite by exploiting the labour of the downtrodden people?  That&#8217;s straight out of Marxist (Karl, not Groucho) rhetoric.  So it should be easy to guess who said this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nYep, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7378725.stm\">George W. Bush<\/a>.  I wonder if he&#8217;s been talking to Fidel Castro.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure there a serious analysis of this could be made, asking whether this is cynical rhetoric or whether Bush has genuine empathy with the proletariat.  But I&#8217;m not going to provide it here &#8211; I prefer to be amused by trivialities.<br \/>\nfn. 1 Actually it was by The Beast wanting to purr loudly whilst sitting on me, but I managed to doze off again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really should write something serious today, but it&#8217;ll have to come later. Instead, I want to indulge you in some politics. I was woken by the World Service1 this morning, with this gem, a politician talking about &#8220;companies in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/05\/02\/full_marx\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}