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Cartoon by Tom Gauld of two grassy hills facing each other across a river, each with castle towers and a sailing ship. Left heading: "OUR BLESSED Marxism". Right heading: "THEIR BARBAROUS Marxism". Left labels: "our scientific plan for socialism", "our class-centered analysis", "our dialectical nimbleness", "our incisive video essayists". Right labels: "their unrealistic idealism", "their harmful class…

Our Blessed Marxism vs Their Barbarous Marxism

A Tom Gauld cartoon where two Marxist camps face off like warring kingdoms, each praising itself and trashing the other. A leftist take on online political infighting.

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Cartoon by Tom Gauld of two grassy hills facing each other across a river, each with castle towers and a sailing ship. Left heading: "OUR BLESSED Marxism". Right heading: "THEIR BARBAROUS Marxism". Left labels: "our scientific plan for socialism", "our class-centered analysis", "our dialectical nimbleness", "our incisive video essayists". Right labels: "their unrealistic idealism", "their harmful class…

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