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What if Marx/Lenin/Stalin/Mao/etc. were Italian? (hexbear.net)
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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We’d be talking about cheese wheels instead of yards of linen

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 months ago

How long is a piece of spaghetti?

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

Ey, tony, i been lookin at dese uh, contradictions here. Seems they's heightenin' to a point that's unsustainable.

Also gettin' word from da east side they sez da rate of profit here, sez it's got the tendency to fall, boss.

Idk I've only met one Italian IRL

[–] jack@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Marxio

Lenuigi

Staluigi

Maorio (this one is Wario)

[–] kittin@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

Americans would romanticize making wine and eating cheese with the commune

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Workers 🤌of 🤌the 🤌world 🤌unite!

[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

ayy im workin ova heaaaa

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

American "Italians" would be a lot less tedious

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

eeyyyyy, I'm expropriatin' heah!!

[–] buh@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

they were but the woke anti-italian deep state doesn't want you to know that

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Carlo Martini, Voldo Linguini, Giuseppe Stalini, and Mario Zedong.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

The USSR but its italy and a few other mediterranean countries

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Stalin would have beat Mussolini to death with a shoe.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Gramsci?

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Well then there'd be even more Italics in Manifesto and Kapital

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

They were all Italian idc

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

It's a me, Maorio!

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Instead of chanting "Dooby dooby dooby," Frank Sinatra would close "Strangers in the Night" by asking "What is to be done?"

[–] miz@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

anti-italian-action

[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

They'd all join up with Gramschi to give Bordiga a swirly and shove him in a locker.

[–] blame@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Mama mia

[–] u_die_for_elmer@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Lenin would have opposed Stalin getting power in Italian. I suppose.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

So what, no fucking Communism now?