Manga version of Karl Marx's 'Das Capital' selling well in Japan

[Bluebird]

I came across an interesting article today talking about a manga (comic book) version of Karl Marx’s ‘Das Capital’ selling in Japan. Although I must admit it’s interesting to see ideology conveyed in this manner, at the same time it’s unfortunate that people are starting to lose faith in capitalism in light of the crisis, and the sort of ideology being perpetuated on this site which acts an effective rebuttal to this view, is pretty much unheard of to the majority.

Although on a lighter note, I hope somebody makes a manga version of Mises’s works, that would be interesting to see I wonder what sort of story they would come up with.

[nazgulnarsil]

someone should cut atlas shrugged by 75% and turn it into a comic.

[wombatron]

@nazgulnarsil

someone should cut atlas shrugged by 75% and turn it into a comic.

25% of Atlas Shrugged is still a really long comic [:D]

[laminustacitus]

The entire affair is incredibly ironic: market demand encouraging an entrepreneur to innovate “Das Capital” by turning it into a format more preferable to a group of consumers.

But on a slightly more serious note, “Das Kapital” provides a rather attractive theory to humanity taking advantage both of our love of having a definite enemies, our greed, and our desire for both certainty and control. As long as homo sapiens walk this earth Marx will live on in the printing press.

[Nerditarian]

@wombatron

@nazgulnarsil

someone should cut atlas shrugged by 75% and turn it into a comic.

25% of Atlas Shrugged is still a really long comic

It would be ok as a series of comics I guess, no?

I know The Road to Serfdom was made into a cartoon. I’m sure several Mises monographs could lend themselves to a similar treatment. Perhaps Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction or The Free market and Its Enemies. I know Economics in One Lesson is intended to be sort of a “For Dummies” type guide in layman’s term but could it be further simplified in to a cartoon and advantageously so? I don’t know.

It would be wild if D:TGTF or FANL or TEoL or Defending the Undefendable or something could get the comic treatment. I don’t know if it could be done or even if such works could get that treatment they would maintain the same completeness in theirmessage.Forget about Human Action or anything that hardcore. Then again I didn’t think a “Das Kapital” comic would sell either. Crazy Commies.

[Jon_Irenicus]

Clever way to appeal to high TP commies.

But on a slightly more serious note, “Das Kapital” provides a rather attractive theory to humanity taking advantage both of our love of having a definite enemies, our greed, and our desire for both certainty and control. As long as homo sapiens walk this earth Marx will live on in the printing press.

I think Rand paints a more desirable picture of the world I’d wish to live in. Marx bores me.

[Magnus]

@Jon Irenicus

Clever way to appeal to high TP commies.

But on a slightly more serious note, “Das Kapital” provides a rather attractive theory to humanity taking advantage both of our love of having a definite enemies, our greed, and our desire for both certainty and control. As long as homo sapiens walk this earth Marx will live on in the printing press.

I think Rand paints a more desirable picture of the world I’d wish to live in. Marx bores me.

Ellsworth Toohey is probably the best depiction of Marx and his likes I’ve ever come across, ironically by Rand. I find it much more frightening than boring.

[ryanpatgray]

@nazgulnarsil

someone should cut atlas shrugged by 75% and turn it into a comic.

Has anyone read Elvis Shrugged?

[liberty_student]

@Jon Irenicus

I think Rand paints a more desirable picture of the world I’d wish to live in. Marx bores me.

You’re not a soft headed idiot. Sadly, many people are.

[Nerditarian]

@liberty student

@Jon Irenicus

I think Rand paints a more desirable picture of the world I’d wish to live in. Marx bores me.

You’re not a soft headed idiot. **Sadly, many people are. {**My Emphasis, Nerd}

Many soft headed idiots? The definition of the modern Marxist “movement”?

[sicsempertyrannis]

Another than the true believers at the CPUSA, is there really even a coherent Marxist “movement” anymore? And I do not mean soft socialism.

[Nerditarian]

@sicsempertyrannis

Another than the true believers at the CPUSA, is there really even a coherent Marxist “movement” anymore? And I do not mean soft socialism.

I don’t know. I was using the term generously to accomodate people who take the time to turn Marxist literature into comics. But any true believers left are clearly delusional.

[nameless]

Well, you know the kinds of people who read manga. Generally “lifestyle libertarians” but otherwise statist to the core. : P

Note: I’m half joking here.