“This band has the power to rip my spine out.” mrjohn1964 comment 12 years ago I agree with mrjohn1964 on the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Consider this a musical VRR pause while I edit a garden session. I ran a session this morning that will probably send X amount of subscribers running for the cliff……again. I had a little bit of covid in my throat that was F-ing up the session. I have to edit it out.
Nice music clip & love the classic 1967 Monterey Festival documentary as TV/PBS shows it alot now. Had to check out mom, who btw is wearing a thin, red "ribbon" & NOT a red bandanna. Geez, kids...
Whata great moniker - Heaven Burgo - & wonder if s/he is one of the Hippie kids w/counter-culture names from way back or just today's chosen funky online disguise for privacy?? haha Hard to know.
> MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL--40 YEARS AGO DOCUMENTARY - K & B ARCHIVES
Related to this era/time period, part of my yout-ful days, is this totally killer series by Dave McGowan. ICY'allMI > Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation: Part I - by Dave McGowan (May 8, 2008)
McGowan writes: "Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago – a time when America last had uniformed ground troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to impose, uhmm, ‘democracy’ on a sovereign nation."
"It is the first week of August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently dubbed the ‘Tonkin Gulf Incident,’ will result in the immediate passing by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which will, in turn, quickly lead to America’s deep immersion into the bloody Vietnam quagmire. Before it is over, well over fifty thousand American bodies – along with literally millions of Southeast Asian bodies – will litter the battlefields of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia."
"For the record, the Tonkin Gulf Incident appears to differ somewhat from other alleged provocations that have driven this country to war. This was not, as we have seen so many times before, a ‘false flag’ operation (which is to say, an operation that involves Uncle Sam attacking himself and then pointing an accusatory finger at someone else). It was also not, as we have also seen on more than one occasion, an attack that was quite deliberately provoked. No, what the Tonkin Gulf incident actually was, as it turns out, is an ‘attack’ that never took place at all. The entire incident, as has been all but officially acknowledged, was spun from whole cloth. (It is quite possible, however, that the intent was to provoke a defensive response, which could then be cast as an unprovoked attack on U.S ships. The ships in question were on an intelligence mission and were operating in a decidedly provocative manner. It is quite possible that when Vietnamese forces failed to respond as anticipated, Uncle Sam decided to just pretend as though they had.)"
"Nevertheless, by early February 1965, the U.S. will – without a declaration of war and with no valid reason to wage one – begin indiscriminately bombing North Vietnam. By March of that same year, the infamous “Operation Rolling Thunder” will have commenced. Over the course of the next three-and-a-half years, millions of tons of bombs, missiles, rockets, incendiary devices and chemical warfare agents will be dumped on the people of Vietnam in what can only be described as one of the worst crimes against humanity ever perpetrated on this planet."
"Also in March of 1965, the first uniformed U.S. soldier will officially set foot on Vietnamese soil (although Special Forces units masquerading as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’ had been there for at least four years, and likely much longer). By April 1965, fully 25,000 uniformed American kids, most still teenagers barely out of high school, will be slogging through the rice paddies of Vietnam. By the end of the year, U.S. troop strength will have surged to 200,000."
"Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world in those early months of 1965, a new ‘scene’ is just beginning to take shape in the city of Los Angeles. In a geographically and socially isolated community known as Laurel Canyon – a heavily wooded, rustic, serene, yet vaguely ominous slice of LA nestled in the hills that separate the Los Angeles basin from the San Fernando Valley – musicians, singers and songwriters suddenly begin to gather as though summoned there by some unseen Pied Piper. Within months, the ‘hippie/flower child’ movement will be given birth there, along with the new style of music that will provide the soundtrack for the tumultuous second half of the 1960s."
"An uncanny number of rock music superstars will emerge from Laurel Canyon beginning in the mid-1960s and carrying through the decade of the 1970s. The first to drop an album will be The Byrds, whose biggest star will prove to be David Crosby. The band’s debut effort, “Mr. Tambourine Man,” will be released on the Summer Solstice of 1965. It will quickly be followed by releases from the John Phillips-led Mamas and the Papas (“If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears,” January 1966), Love with Arthur Lee (“Love,” May 1966), Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (“Freak Out,” June 1966), Buffalo Springfield, featuring Stephen Stills and Neil Young (“Buffalo Springfield,” October 1966), and The Doors (“The Doors,” January 1967)."
...don't stop reading now... Yep, certainly "uncanny"... sorta like it might have been planned/arranged?
Do any others remember how quickly the teen/culture/clothes/music changed from 1963 to 1970??
From straight, old-timey suits & permed/teased up bubble-heads to long hair on everyone, mini-skirts & low-cut bell bottoms. It was a high-speed cultural transformation is a very short, forced time-span.
Please link your review or post it as a stack if you can. Would love to read it, Mike. Also should say that your writing & sensibility (wise-cracking humor) reminds me of Dave alot.
I love McGowan's deep analysis of all US things politically conspiratorial as he "gets it". Plus I end up laughing heartily at his satiric commentary/rude comic jokes of the AH-PTB.
And yes, consider writing more on him as he most definitely deserves to be better/further remembered. Bless his daughter for keeping up with his website over all these years later. Imo, McGowan's writings def deserve a Pulitzer or two & not the govt ignominy they get. "Wagging the Moondoggie" is simply right-on, factual, cheesy, sarcastic brilliance. <3
Love it...all of it...manipulating the Matrix, the young and happy pretty lady with the red bandana, an upcoming spooky session (can't wait!) and a "little bit of Covid in my throat" (sung to the tune of "A Little Bit of Monica" -ever hear that song?)
Manipulating the Matrix- extremely apropos this morning... I was listening to an interesting discussion last night, wherein someone I trust, put forth the possibility that the 2008-2009 housing crash was actually set up ON PURPOSE so that all the real property that still had outstanding debt, would be bought out by a foreign entity. THUS- a majority of Americans would own NOTHING and all be DISPLACED. If I had heard this even a few years ago I would not have believed it. BUT: due to all the MANIPULATIONS of US by our own "government" that have been exposed so far- I cannot out right dismiss this possibility. That is really disconcerting.
Yes, they control everything. Catherine Austin Fitts talks about BLM and other set up riots which are designed to wreck districts, ruin businesses so price of real estate drops and then these investment companies swoop in and buy up on the cheap.
Our reality has been shown - proven - to be part of a controlled long-term political operation moving us all along into one "desired" NWO direction...the direction of the globalists' big plan.
No debate on this at all any more as so many have shown us the absolute proof of Agenda 21.
(You can go back to at least Eisenhower's 1950s MIC speech & Prez HW Bush's NWO talk too.}
See, for example, some links below based on archival/historical research/conferences/reports.
> Full globalization is a corporate plan - Rosa Koire [RIP] Explains Agenda 21 & The Great Reset + Democrats Against UN Agenda 21
> Interview/discussion: KILLING AMERICA - Thru Regionalism & Sustainable Development - Michael Shaw & Rosa Koire - Agenda21Truth First published on April 26th, 2019. https://www.bitchute.com/video/hKmt21DmPlG0/
> Book: Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21 (Paperback) September 2, 2011 by Rosa Koire (Author), The Post Sustainability Institute Press (Editor), Barry N. Nathan (Illustrator) - BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: U.N. Agenda 21 is 172 pages of truth. Part history, part current events, part hand-to-hand combat, and part blueprint for keeping your freedom, this is one book that you'll put to work immediately. Boots on the ground and all hands on deck is the order of the day. Awareness is the first step in the Resistance.
Filmed by Steve Kemp, this was a non-partisan conference co-sponsored by Democrats Against UN Agenda 21. Rosa Koire speaking to the East Bay Tea Party in June 2011. ROSA KOIRE SPEAKING IN MOORPARK, CA, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011, TO THE CONEJO VALLEY TEA PARTY, LIBERTARIANS, PROPERTY RIGHTS GROUPS, AND OTHER CONCERNED CITIZENS IN LOS ANGELES AND VENTURA ...
> What is UN Agenda 21? - The Post Sustainability Institute
UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan implemented worldwide to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world. INVENTORY AND CONTROL.
But see > The Post Sustainability Institute [Rosa Koire pdf speech given July 29, 2012]
Agenda 21 is a non-binding [heh, heh... so they want you to believe...] action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. It is an action agenda [globally!] for the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world that can be executed at local, national, and global levels.Wikipedia [See Klaus Schwab's The Great Reset book as example.]
> Michael Shaw - Timeline of Agenda 21- First published at 16:23 UTC on October 14th, 2020.
Deep in my soul I believe this too. Time's up all youse globalists/demons/vampires.
Don't fail us now Oh Great Spirit.
Also, might ask for all the good spirits/ghosties/angels help us out in this uncertain time too as you have a super connection to the real "other side powers that be". :-)
Yep. It's been going on for thousands of years, by some accounts, and for sure since the Romans, and it's time to put an end to this line of psychotard, inbred, evil muffos from Hell. So saith the dog.
Y'all just have to know that many of us political radicals back then - fighting against the never-ending Viet Nam violence/war, for the anti-segregationist civil rights movement & feminism - were reading/believing in Alinsky's valuable organizing suggestions for positive US changes.
Imo, believe Alinsky's organizing "Rules" are misinterpreted by both the left & right & so now either excuse/promote "authoritarian dictates" or blame fascist tendencies on it overall, which was never the use or intent back then. Organizing changes for equality didn't promote brute coercion/controls but broad persuasion & freedom for all. At least, many of us believed that.
YMMV but don't base that opinion on cultural "hearsay" today but read & think for yourselves.
Hopefully if y'all read a pdf of Rules for Radicals you'll understand that any book can be used for good or evil. Just as Karl Marx's Das Kapital (1867) [now more commonly called "Capital: A Critique of Political Economy"] was an extraordinary examination/explanation/critique of the economic systems & NOT a guidebook or instruction manual for capitalist/communist/socialist exploitation (as Orwell's 1984 was a cautionary book). Das Capital was an historical explication.
Marx came way before (he was born in 1818 & died in 1883) "Marxism"/communism as a "system" as it was later developed into a political/control movement for strict, authoritarian purposes. Everyone should read Das Kapital "at your leisure" (fun beach read?? haha) to understand this point. Marx had nothing to do w/"communism" per se or his analysis being used for later totalitarian regimes against the workers by the elites/ capital he described.
Marx was both outlining & critiquing the world's economic systems (in 3 volumes y'all!) as they already existed in the mid 19th century (the years around the US Civil War period) & definitely NOT setting up or promoting communist states himself. So he was a political "fall guy" or patsy for later fascists who used his critique of capitalism to promote their dictatorial version of totalitarian fascism under dictatorship/communism as "Marxism".
Nice music clip & love the classic 1967 Monterey Festival documentary as TV/PBS shows it alot now. Had to check out mom, who btw is wearing a thin, red "ribbon" & NOT a red bandanna. Geez, kids...
Whata great moniker - Heaven Burgo - & wonder if s/he is one of the Hippie kids w/counter-culture names from way back or just today's chosen funky online disguise for privacy?? haha Hard to know.
> MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL--40 YEARS AGO DOCUMENTARY - K & B ARCHIVES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnV34yEby - 2,354,399 views Posted Aug 21, 2020
Related to this era/time period, part of my yout-ful days, is this totally killer series by Dave McGowan. ICY'allMI > Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation: Part I - by Dave McGowan (May 8, 2008)
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-i/
McGowan writes: "Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago – a time when America last had uniformed ground troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to impose, uhmm, ‘democracy’ on a sovereign nation."
"It is the first week of August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently dubbed the ‘Tonkin Gulf Incident,’ will result in the immediate passing by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which will, in turn, quickly lead to America’s deep immersion into the bloody Vietnam quagmire. Before it is over, well over fifty thousand American bodies – along with literally millions of Southeast Asian bodies – will litter the battlefields of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia."
"For the record, the Tonkin Gulf Incident appears to differ somewhat from other alleged provocations that have driven this country to war. This was not, as we have seen so many times before, a ‘false flag’ operation (which is to say, an operation that involves Uncle Sam attacking himself and then pointing an accusatory finger at someone else). It was also not, as we have also seen on more than one occasion, an attack that was quite deliberately provoked. No, what the Tonkin Gulf incident actually was, as it turns out, is an ‘attack’ that never took place at all. The entire incident, as has been all but officially acknowledged, was spun from whole cloth. (It is quite possible, however, that the intent was to provoke a defensive response, which could then be cast as an unprovoked attack on U.S ships. The ships in question were on an intelligence mission and were operating in a decidedly provocative manner. It is quite possible that when Vietnamese forces failed to respond as anticipated, Uncle Sam decided to just pretend as though they had.)"
"Nevertheless, by early February 1965, the U.S. will – without a declaration of war and with no valid reason to wage one – begin indiscriminately bombing North Vietnam. By March of that same year, the infamous “Operation Rolling Thunder” will have commenced. Over the course of the next three-and-a-half years, millions of tons of bombs, missiles, rockets, incendiary devices and chemical warfare agents will be dumped on the people of Vietnam in what can only be described as one of the worst crimes against humanity ever perpetrated on this planet."
"Also in March of 1965, the first uniformed U.S. soldier will officially set foot on Vietnamese soil (although Special Forces units masquerading as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’ had been there for at least four years, and likely much longer). By April 1965, fully 25,000 uniformed American kids, most still teenagers barely out of high school, will be slogging through the rice paddies of Vietnam. By the end of the year, U.S. troop strength will have surged to 200,000."
"Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world in those early months of 1965, a new ‘scene’ is just beginning to take shape in the city of Los Angeles. In a geographically and socially isolated community known as Laurel Canyon – a heavily wooded, rustic, serene, yet vaguely ominous slice of LA nestled in the hills that separate the Los Angeles basin from the San Fernando Valley – musicians, singers and songwriters suddenly begin to gather as though summoned there by some unseen Pied Piper. Within months, the ‘hippie/flower child’ movement will be given birth there, along with the new style of music that will provide the soundtrack for the tumultuous second half of the 1960s."
"An uncanny number of rock music superstars will emerge from Laurel Canyon beginning in the mid-1960s and carrying through the decade of the 1970s. The first to drop an album will be The Byrds, whose biggest star will prove to be David Crosby. The band’s debut effort, “Mr. Tambourine Man,” will be released on the Summer Solstice of 1965. It will quickly be followed by releases from the John Phillips-led Mamas and the Papas (“If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears,” January 1966), Love with Arthur Lee (“Love,” May 1966), Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (“Freak Out,” June 1966), Buffalo Springfield, featuring Stephen Stills and Neil Young (“Buffalo Springfield,” October 1966), and The Doors (“The Doors,” January 1967)."
...don't stop reading now... Yep, certainly "uncanny"... sorta like it might have been planned/arranged?
Do any others remember how quickly the teen/culture/clothes/music changed from 1963 to 1970??
From straight, old-timey suits & permed/teased up bubble-heads to long hair on everyone, mini-skirts & low-cut bell bottoms. It was a high-speed cultural transformation is a very short, forced time-span.
I think I wrote a review on Dave’s book. The book really makes you wonder wtf is going on here. Great comment Lucinda. I might write more on it.
Please link your review or post it as a stack if you can. Would love to read it, Mike. Also should say that your writing & sensibility (wise-cracking humor) reminds me of Dave alot.
I love McGowan's deep analysis of all US things politically conspiratorial as he "gets it". Plus I end up laughing heartily at his satiric commentary/rude comic jokes of the AH-PTB.
And yes, consider writing more on him as he most definitely deserves to be better/further remembered. Bless his daughter for keeping up with his website over all these years later. Imo, McGowan's writings def deserve a Pulitzer or two & not the govt ignominy they get. "Wagging the Moondoggie" is simply right-on, factual, cheesy, sarcastic brilliance. <3
Seattle Times is hording the Pulitzer Prizes.
Love it...all of it...manipulating the Matrix, the young and happy pretty lady with the red bandana, an upcoming spooky session (can't wait!) and a "little bit of Covid in my throat" (sung to the tune of "A Little Bit of Monica" -ever hear that song?)
Manipulating the Matrix- extremely apropos this morning... I was listening to an interesting discussion last night, wherein someone I trust, put forth the possibility that the 2008-2009 housing crash was actually set up ON PURPOSE so that all the real property that still had outstanding debt, would be bought out by a foreign entity. THUS- a majority of Americans would own NOTHING and all be DISPLACED. If I had heard this even a few years ago I would not have believed it. BUT: due to all the MANIPULATIONS of US by our own "government" that have been exposed so far- I cannot out right dismiss this possibility. That is really disconcerting.
Yes, they control everything. Catherine Austin Fitts talks about BLM and other set up riots which are designed to wreck districts, ruin businesses so price of real estate drops and then these investment companies swoop in and buy up on the cheap.
Yes!
Doria Nappi & all -
Our reality has been shown - proven - to be part of a controlled long-term political operation moving us all along into one "desired" NWO direction...the direction of the globalists' big plan.
No debate on this at all any more as so many have shown us the absolute proof of Agenda 21.
(You can go back to at least Eisenhower's 1950s MIC speech & Prez HW Bush's NWO talk too.}
See, for example, some links below based on archival/historical research/conferences/reports.
> Full globalization is a corporate plan - Rosa Koire [RIP] Explains Agenda 21 & The Great Reset + Democrats Against UN Agenda 21
https://odysee.com/@ComputingForever:9/rosa-koire-explains-agenda-21-and-the:6
> Interview/discussion: KILLING AMERICA - Thru Regionalism & Sustainable Development - Michael Shaw & Rosa Koire - Agenda21Truth First published on April 26th, 2019. https://www.bitchute.com/video/hKmt21DmPlG0/
> Book: Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21 (Paperback) September 2, 2011 by Rosa Koire (Author), The Post Sustainability Institute Press (Editor), Barry N. Nathan (Illustrator) - BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: U.N. Agenda 21 is 172 pages of truth. Part history, part current events, part hand-to-hand combat, and part blueprint for keeping your freedom, this is one book that you'll put to work immediately. Boots on the ground and all hands on deck is the order of the day. Awareness is the first step in the Resistance.
> Democrats Against U.N. Agenda 21 - Videos
https://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com
Filmed by Steve Kemp, this was a non-partisan conference co-sponsored by Democrats Against UN Agenda 21. Rosa Koire speaking to the East Bay Tea Party in June 2011. ROSA KOIRE SPEAKING IN MOORPARK, CA, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011, TO THE CONEJO VALLEY TEA PARTY, LIBERTARIANS, PROPERTY RIGHTS GROUPS, AND OTHER CONCERNED CITIZENS IN LOS ANGELES AND VENTURA ...
> What is UN Agenda 21? - The Post Sustainability Institute
https://www.postsustainabilityinstitute.org › what-is-un-agenda-21.html [< link is blocked now]
UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan implemented worldwide to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world. INVENTORY AND CONTROL.
But see > The Post Sustainability Institute [Rosa Koire pdf speech given July 29, 2012]
https://theunsolicitedopinion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/STRATEGY.TO_.WIN_.KOIRE_.2012.pdf [ignore the warning & save pdf for later]
THE POST SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE Committed to Exposing The Truth About UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development
And see the printed publication > Agenda 21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21
Agenda 21 is a non-binding [heh, heh... so they want you to believe...] action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. It is an action agenda [globally!] for the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world that can be executed at local, national, and global levels.Wikipedia [See Klaus Schwab's The Great Reset book as example.]
> Michael Shaw - Timeline of Agenda 21- First published at 16:23 UTC on October 14th, 2020.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/1goFbRQlYPiv/
Sorry for link-heavy post but this is super important info that everyone should know by now. :/
The globalists are still hurriedly pushing their one world plan & the C19 scam was intrinsic to it.
Race against time to see if the peeps will wake up to it before the bio/security/prison is ready.
“We’re running out of time.”—Mitt Romney
Their time is up.
Deep in my soul I believe this too. Time's up all youse globalists/demons/vampires.
Don't fail us now Oh Great Spirit.
Also, might ask for all the good spirits/ghosties/angels help us out in this uncertain time too as you have a super connection to the real "other side powers that be". :-)
The Great Spirit won't fail us. But it may take some time to straighten out this mess!
Yep. It's been going on for thousands of years, by some accounts, and for sure since the Romans, and it's time to put an end to this line of psychotard, inbred, evil muffos from Hell. So saith the dog.
Whore-ing Pulitzer Prizes
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That makes TOTAl sense.
They can check off all the boxes in Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals with one exception...we know which one...but they are certainly trying.
They are the "useless eaters." They can't hide.
Y'all just have to know that many of us political radicals back then - fighting against the never-ending Viet Nam violence/war, for the anti-segregationist civil rights movement & feminism - were reading/believing in Alinsky's valuable organizing suggestions for positive US changes.
Imo, believe Alinsky's organizing "Rules" are misinterpreted by both the left & right & so now either excuse/promote "authoritarian dictates" or blame fascist tendencies on it overall, which was never the use or intent back then. Organizing changes for equality didn't promote brute coercion/controls but broad persuasion & freedom for all. At least, many of us believed that.
YMMV but don't base that opinion on cultural "hearsay" today but read & think for yourselves.
Rules for Radicals pdf - https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals/mode/2up?view=theater
https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals/page/n19/mode/2up?view=theater
Hopefully if y'all read a pdf of Rules for Radicals you'll understand that any book can be used for good or evil. Just as Karl Marx's Das Kapital (1867) [now more commonly called "Capital: A Critique of Political Economy"] was an extraordinary examination/explanation/critique of the economic systems & NOT a guidebook or instruction manual for capitalist/communist/socialist exploitation (as Orwell's 1984 was a cautionary book). Das Capital was an historical explication.
Marx came way before (he was born in 1818 & died in 1883) "Marxism"/communism as a "system" as it was later developed into a political/control movement for strict, authoritarian purposes. Everyone should read Das Kapital "at your leisure" (fun beach read?? haha) to understand this point. Marx had nothing to do w/"communism" per se or his analysis being used for later totalitarian regimes against the workers by the elites/ capital he described.
Marx was both outlining & critiquing the world's economic systems (in 3 volumes y'all!) as they already existed in the mid 19th century (the years around the US Civil War period) & definitely NOT setting up or promoting communist states himself. So he was a political "fall guy" or patsy for later fascists who used his critique of capitalism to promote their dictatorial version of totalitarian fascism under dictatorship/communism as "Marxism".
> Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - Volume I - Book One: The Process of Production of Capital - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf
Definitely a fun beach read. :-) (Remember to always go to the historical sources for insight.)