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BREAK IT DOWN, BARNEY STYLE! or Why do so many internet Marxists dislike explaining their ideas in plain English that regular working class people can understand?

 BREAK IT DOWN, BARNEY STYLE! 

or Why do so many internet Marxists dislike explaining their ideas in plain English that regular working class people can understand?


one thing I don't get about a lot of internet Marxists

if you want to win regular blue collar workers to support communist ideas... why exactly do some of you insist on using graduate school jargon?

that's counterproductive

why not say what you mean in PLAIN ENGLISH? 

instead of talking about "the proletariat" - why not say "the working class"?

instead of "bourgeoisie" why not say "capitalists" or "businesspeople'?

instead of calling for "proletarian internationalism" why not say 'world wide worker solidarity"?

instead of "dictatorship of the proletariat" why not say "working class democracy"? 

you can explain the Labor Theory of Value using 4th grade reading level terminology - here, watch this:

workers have to sell their ability to work to survive because they don't have any investment property - their only means of survival is finding a job with somebody most workers end up working for corporations or privately owned businesses - they produce goods or services that the corporation or businessperson sells - these are "commodities" and the process is "commodity production" 

the corporation or business owner sells the commodity for it's value, which is based on the amount of labor that, on average, is required to produce that commodity - they do NOT pay the worker the full value of the goods or services she produced bosses/corporations tend to pay the workers who actually produce the goods or services as little as they can get away with & sell those goods or services for the highest price they can get away with 

the difference between what workers get paid and the price that the goods or services they produce are sold for is known as "surplus value" - that is the source of all profits & it is all produced by workers but taken by the bosses for their own use 

that, my friends, is the Labor Theory of Value, presented in plain English that - if you read it aloud - could literally be understood by a functional illiterate (and I say that as a vocational instructor who's had students who were functional illiterates) 

instructors in the US Marine Corps call this 'breaking it down, Barney style" (like the kid's show character, Barney the purple dinosaur) - you can take any idea and "break it down Barney style" so anybody can get it 

that's how Marine Corps sergeants train illiterates and non native speakers of English to be jet engine mechanics and scout snipers - if it works for them... perhaps Marxists should give it a shot? 

unless all the Marxist jargon is your secret handshake, so the only people you talk to are other schoolbook Marxists?

if that's the case - carry on! 

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