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NEWS: Manga Guide to Marx's Das Kapital to Ship Next Month


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minakichan





PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:36 am Reply with quote
THIS.

THIS IS AWESOME.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:58 am Reply with quote
yeah, i want the Mein Kampf and Faust guides.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:35 am Reply with quote
Das gut
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nagashi



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:24 am Reply with quote
Holy crap. Can't wait for the scanlations! I found a JFK manga at a store once. it went over the whole cuban missile crisis and his apollo speech. Pretty epic stuff really. I also have scans somewhere of a manga coverning the US presidential election. But Marx? THE BEST.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:06 pm Reply with quote
A manga version based on Communist propaganda? Are they absolutely serious?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:23 pm Reply with quote
Heh, I perused thru the Manga Guide to Statistics that I could get for half price at a store. If this is anything like that, expect many manga tropes. Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:32 pm Reply with quote
KabaKabaFruit wrote:
A manga version based on Communist propaganda? Are they absolutely serious?


It's not communist propaganda. It's an analysis of how capitalism works. Marx's communist manifesto is propaganda. They're quite different works.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:38 pm Reply with quote
I want a 'Learn History With Hetalia' book.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:42 pm Reply with quote
Damn, I want those scanlations fffast!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:46 pm Reply with quote
I was plowing through the 'Inferno' section of the Divine Comedy a while earlier and wondered how an illustrated version would be handled.

I know these manga versions aren't really substitutes for the works they were based upon, but it would still be nice if they got picked up by an English-language publisher.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:28 pm Reply with quote
Well that sounds awesome, I want a copy. If this succeeds what is next, Lenninism or Marxism? The essays of Trotsky?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:57 pm Reply with quote
Makes perfect sense.

I am sure this will be required reading for all those little 4th and 5th graders out there someday.


Rolling Eyes
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Shii



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:42 am Reply with quote
Dargonxtc wrote:
Makes perfect sense.

I am sure this will be required reading for all those little 4th and 5th graders out there someday.


Rolling Eyes
Are you being sarcastic? Don't be. The Japanese Communist party is the largest third party by far. Its leader, Kazuo Shii (no relation), has gained prominence among young people on Nico Nico Douga, and as the article notes the Crab Canning Ship novel is such a hit in Japan it's a wonder it has not yet received a new English translation.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:47 pm Reply with quote
nagashi wrote:
KabaKabaFruit wrote:
A manga version based on Communist propaganda? Are they absolutely serious?


It's not communist propaganda. It's an analysis of how capitalism works. Marx's communist manifesto is propaganda. They're quite different works.


And now they'll be capitalizing on this.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:19 pm Reply with quote
Shii wrote:
Are you being sarcastic?

Maybe in a morbidly realistic way, yes. Sorry if I have a problem with content like this possibly being used to indoctrinate kids which rarely understand anything at that point. Stuff like this, which is really nothing more than an addendum to his twenty year earlier work, the Communist Manifesto. To seed the evils of capitalism(however elegant and wrong they may have been) in the minds of the youth, and point them in the direction of his true masterwork.
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Don't be.

Yes, it is bad to turn against the "party".
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The Japanese Communist party is the largest third party by far.

Forgive me, but I don't really think that's a good thing.
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Its leader, Kazuo Shii (no relation), has gained prominence among young people on Nico Nico Douga, and as the article notes the Crab Canning Ship novel is such a hit in Japan it's a wonder it has not yet received a new English translation.

Well, I wouldn't mind that so much. Every nation, including Japan, and under every system of government has done bad things in the past, present and future. Sad thing is, when the populace starts demanding things in a Marxist tact, it inevitably sinks the state into a worse recession. But I suppose one could call life nothing but a vicious circle, so I suppose it works out.
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