FARK.com: (4104948) Soon to be on the "10 Most Harmful Books" list - "Das Capital": the Japanese mango comic book. To speed Kapitalism's departure, the Japanese have created a manga book from Karl Marx "Das Kapital"

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		Soon to be on the "10 Most Harmful Books" list - "Das Capital": the Japanese mango comic book. To speed Kapitalism's departure, the Japanese have created a manga book from Karl Marx "Das Kapital" (azstarnet.com)		58
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Joelogon		2008-12-24 01:43:18 PM

Mango comic book? Mmmmm...

saulecker		2008-12-24 01:49:13 PM

I like mangos, but I didn't like Mango

i23.photobucket.com

UNC_Samurai		2008-12-24 02:21:38 PM

The manga edition of his masterpiece, "Das Kapital," hit Japanese bookstores this month and sold about 6,000 copies in its first few days, said Yusuke Maruo of EastPress Co.

Big deal, they sell ten times as many copies of your run-of-the-mill tentacle porn manga in the same timeframe. Now, if there were a "Das Kapital" hentai, things might be different.

/Did I just invoke Rule 34?

oldebayer		2008-12-24 03:32:13 PM

I don't like mangoes. Do they have a spam edition?

superbeerchan		2008-12-24 03:34:43 PM

UNC_Samurai: /Did I just invoke Rule 34?

Dunno if I want to do a Google search of "Das Kapital Hentai", but its pretty well established that the Japanese manga industry is pretty close to the dead-tree realization of Rule 34 - ie, if it exists, there's likely a manga adaptation.

Klingon Penis		2008-12-24 03:49:54 PM

I submitted this with a funnier headline.

Godzilla		2008-12-24 04:02:12 PM

Dasne capita mihi?

Aarontology		2008-12-24 04:11:19 PM

So Karl Marx is going to be some angsty teenager with his faithful robot companion Engels, and they're going to fight capitalism after going through a long journey where they fight Adam Smith summoned demons in a post apocalyptic wasteland culminating at the Tower of the Free Market?

Churchill2004		2008-12-24 04:13:09 PM

UNC_Samurai: Big deal, they sell ten times as many copies of your run-of-the-mill tentacle porn manga in the same timeframe. Now, if there were a "Das Kapital" hentai, things might be different.

/Did I just invoke Rule 34?

media-2.web.britannica.com

I think the commies probably have us beat in the porn department.

Occam's Chainsaw		2008-12-24 04:22:23 PM

Aarontology: ...culminating at the Tower of the Free Market?

See, up until that point you could've been speaking from distant exposure. The last part gives you away as an anime nerd.

/And of course I out myself by taking notice.

Aarontology		2008-12-24 04:43:08 PM

Occam's Chainsaw: Aarontology: ...culminating at the Tower of the Free Market?

See, up until that point you could've been speaking from distant exposure. The last part gives you away as an anime nerd.

/And of course I out myself by taking notice.

I thought about that as I was typing, but I felt that my post would be incomplete without it.

johnny_vegas		2008-12-24 04:58:36 PM

Klingon Penis: I submitted this with a funnier headline.

WRONG. You and subby both suck. My headline was the winner

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4103682 (new window)

jaylectricity		2008-12-24 04:59:21 PM

Klingon Penis: I submitted this with a funnier headline.

No you didn't.

Aarontology		2008-12-24 05:03:22 PM

johnny_vegas: WRONG. You and subby both suck. My headline was the winner

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4103682 (new window)

You bastard. That's the first time I've been caught with that in months.

Pope George Ringo		2008-12-24 05:39:14 PM

LordBollocks		2008-12-24 05:56:50 PM

What a mango may look like

www.sporkandknife.net

moof		2008-12-24 05:58:53 PM

That list of "10 Most Harmful Books" is bogus.
It doesn't even include "America Deceived" by E. A. Blayre III.
Just goed to show you; THAT's how scared "they" are...

SubBass49		2008-12-24 05:58:58 PM

Not a fan of manga...but a mango-flavored comic book may just win me over.

/didn't RTFA

Man On Pink Corner		2008-12-24 06:01:17 PM

So, somebody in the gun-buyback thread aired the idea of a Bible buyback program. Turn in a Bible for proper disposal, get a $5 gift card to Barnes & Noble or Starbucks or something. How could we set something like that up? Would it get a reasonable amount of media attention if conducted on an online, mail-in basis? Or would we have to actually set up card tables at the mall?

dwalder		2008-12-24 06:02:37 PM

This is a serious comic - this is a serious comic thread.
64.23.98.142

History is a race between education and catastrophe - George Orwell

mandingueiro		2008-12-24 06:03:08 PM

japanese mango? is it cubed? sounds yummy.

ThunderChicken		2008-12-24 06:05:29 PM

I don't think there's anything they won't make a comic about in Japan.

/was traumatized by a manga shop as a child

skinink		2008-12-24 06:08:27 PM

The comic book adaptation for geeks least like to sell, because it targets the wrong audience: "The Joys of Sex".

seaseasea		2008-12-24 06:13:19 PM

That redundant headline is redundant...

unit63		2008-12-24 06:19:02 PM

What?

bobbette		2008-12-24 06:21:47 PM

Nobody ever gives Friedrich Engels any love.

Anyway, why would Das Kapital be on any "10 most harmful" books list? It's not like it's new or particularly revelatory any more.

I can think of 10 things I've seen with my own eyes from Japan that are wayyyy more potentially harmful to today's society.

xuanzhiyouxuan		2008-12-24 06:28:18 PM

bobbette: Nobody ever gives Friedrich Engels any love.

Engels wrote a neat little piece about Afghanistan.

Braindeath		2008-12-24 06:32:40 PM

Man On Pink Corner: So, somebody in the gun-buyback thread aired the idea of a Bible buyback program. Turn in a Bible for proper disposal, get a $5 gift card to Barnes & Noble or Starbucks or something. How could we set something like that up? Would it get a reasonable amount of media attention if conducted on an online, mail-in basis? Or would we have to actually set up card tables at the mall?

Okay, but I'm keeping my porn star bible.

Mohammed Superstar		2008-12-24 06:33:07 PM

Klingon Penis: I submitted this with a funnier headline.

I don't know, the headline is pretty funny. But probably not for the reason subby intended.

Mohammed Superstar		2008-12-24 06:36:05 PM

seaseasea: That redundant headline is redundant...

Your handle makes your comment precious.

MadTheologian		2008-12-24 06:45:16 PM

Did any of you call for Ayn Rand pr0n (new window, censored but NSFW)?

Rule 34 is the law!

CommandantVonThrash		2008-12-24 07:05:24 PM

Marx's writing read like a comic book anyway, I don't see the problem.

ZeroCorpse		2008-12-24 07:14:03 PM

All manga should be on the "Too Stupid To Read" list. The majority of it is either yaoi or yuri for teenage girls, and the remainder is simply inane "badass" crap for the same guys who would have been impressed by hair metal in the 80s.

A fad is a fad, and this fad needs to die, already.

Bugs_Bunny_Practiced_Psychological_Warfare		2008-12-24 07:23:38 PM

CommandantVonThrash: Marx's writing read like a comic book anyway, I don't see the problem.

Really? Which comic book?

bigbadideasinaction		2008-12-24 07:36:51 PM

Occam's Chainsaw: Aarontology: ...culminating at the Tower of the Free Market?

See, up until that point you could've been speaking from distant exposure. The last part gives you away as an anime nerd.

/And of course I out myself by taking notice.

From what I learn from anime, Tokyo Tower has to be rebuilt weekly. They save costs by using balsa wood.

DoWhatNowToWhat		2008-12-24 07:47:59 PM

No one has this listed on Ebay yet. I am a little dissapointed.

TelefunkenU47		2008-12-24 08:24:39 PM

Fark and 4chan - converging more and more every day.

Mayhem of the Black Underclass		2008-12-24 08:25:16 PM

I don't understand that headline. has it been run through babelfish English - Japanese - Russian - German - English?

lake_huron		2008-12-24 08:36:40 PM

johnny_vegas: Klingon Penis: I submitted this with a funnier headline.

WRONG. You and subby both suck. My headline was the winner

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4103682 (new window)

You magnificent bastard. First time I've ever been caught.

pzippy		2008-12-24 08:55:08 PM

manga.

Believe it or not, there's a difference between mango and manga.

whammer		2008-12-24 08:55:40 PM

oldebayer		2008-12-24 09:03:49 PM

ZeroCorpse

A fad is a fad, and this fad needs to die, already.

Fad? Um, you might want to use another word, considering that manga began roughly the same time as the United States. Here's a handy Link so you don't have to take my word for this.

/Not a big fan of it myself, but it is hardly a fad.

oldebayer		2008-12-24 09:05:11 PM

Sorry, the Link got broken in the preview.

General Vayo		2008-12-24 09:18:30 PM

Mongo cut wood		2008-12-24 10:11:10 PM

pzippy Quote 2008-12-24 08:55:08 PM
manga.

Believe it or not, there's a difference between mango and manga.

One you can make Salsa out of.

student-iat.ubalt.edu

/will probably be a must read book for the liberals

Egon Spengler		2008-12-24 10:28:24 PM

oldebayer
ZeroCorpse

A fad is a fad, and this fad needs to die, already.

Fad? Um, you might want to use another word, considering that manga began roughly the same time as the United States. Here's a handy Link so you don't have to take my word for this.

/Not a big fan of it myself, but it is hardly a fad.

Zerocorpse got PWNED

/not a manga fan
//loved battle royale

CommandantVonThrash		2008-12-24 10:41:10 PM

Bugs_Bunny_Practiced_Psychological_Warfare: CommandantVonThrash: Marx's writing read like a comic book anyway, I don't see the problem.

Really? Which comic book?

1950s Captain America, in reverse.

smokesteam		2008-12-24 10:48:11 PM

Aarontology: So Karl Marx is going to be some angsty teenager with his faithful robot companion Engels, and they're going to fight capitalism after going through a long journey where they fight Adam Smith summoned demons in a post apocalyptic wasteland culminating at the Tower of the Free Market?

You win.

oldebayer: ZeroCorpse

A fad is a fad, and this fad needs to die, already.

Fad? Um, you might want to use another word, considering that manga began roughly the same time as the United States. Here's a handy Link so you don't have to take my word for this.

/Not a big fan of it myself, but it is hardly a fad.

You loose. Only in Wikiworld could that article be not laughed at for being so free of facts. Woodblock prints != manga, not by a long shot.

Stuckinacubicle		2008-12-24 10:51:02 PM

Heh, interesting. I wonder who's doing the artwork. As much as I wish it were so, I doubt the likes of Sano Toshihide are doing that one.

randomjsa		2008-12-24 11:20:33 PM

And here the Japanese are always touted as being super intelligent people but now we learn at least some of them are interested in Communism.

Oh well, if they want to solve their overpopulation problem there's no better way to do it than with Communism.

100+ million murdered and growing.

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