chapotraphouse

whos the funniest person to have written this? Stephen Hawking? Mr. Rogers?

It's Alexander Cockburn, but I can't find the original source

tbf, by most accounts marx was a colossal dickhead

Original source article. Cockburn's article's actually about Rahm Emanuel, and his digression about Miliband is about how in the end of the day the blame for the criminality of such depraved ghouls like Emanuel lies with the goody-goody "progressive liberal" types like Obama.

I don't quite understand what you're getting at in your comment? Cockburn's rhetoric is definitely aggressively combative, but I definitely don't think that he's being smug or insincere or manipulative ar all. In fact, I honestly think that he's actually extremely close to being purely sincere and moralistic. The key idea is that he sees the actually existing suffering and injustice around the world and feels justifiably angry at that, and he's pointing that fury at the right people and institutions, i.e., those most responsible for creating and perpetuating unjust socioeconomic systems of capitalist/imperialist exploitation. He's not at all saying that you should act like a jerk towards everyone around yourself without rhyme or reason; he's talking about there being a class war going on, and the need for principled leftists to recognise their enemies and adopt the right attitude towards them in such a situation.

speak carefully on this, it was written by the lion of Damascus

Slightly off-topic, but I hate the way people like this talk and think. Everything and everyone is a tool to be manipulated. Nothing they say or do is genuine, and there is always this smug, self-absorbed assumption that they're the smartest person in the world.

The norm in contemporary western culture is to admire and try to emulate such "cool, calm, and collected" creepy fucks. I fucking hate that.

Everyone can see you're a douche bag and everyone knows what you're doing.

I wish that was the case. I really do.