What's your favorite leftist trivia fact? - eviltoast

Mine is that International Workers Day is May 1st to commemorate the Haymarket Affair, which happened in America where labor day is conspicuously much later in the year.

  • tolstoiis@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 years ago

    Don’t know if this qualifies as trivia, but I love that Marx wrote “The Poverty of Philosophy” as a direct “fuck you” to Proudhon’s “The Philosophy of Poverty”. It cracks me up every time I think about it.

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      5 years ago

      Lol he was such a snarky little shit too, I love reading critique of gotha and seeing him get continually more pissed and tearing apart even single words as being opportunist or vague.