Marxism For Dummies 5

Complicity is easy for the Right, one single flag to which they all adhere – “someone might steal my loot”. This primal fear prompts pistols under pillows, sleepless nights and riot cops. Who needs a Stagyrite? But Lefties hold their differences dear. Each Keeper of the Flame is more sincere than Cash-Is-Trash-ists, Ogden Nash-ists, quite apart from Crypto-Fascists, Widow’s Mite Apologists, Red Guards, or those who steer by Stalin’s light (Stakhanovites). It’s clear: you’d never have a play without a wright, and so each faction finds its Miller Lite: Kropotkin, Castro, Kopp – who’s cool this year?