Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for May 14, 2013

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    EstrelitaH  almost 11 years ago

    I’m guessing the 50s on this one.

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    Simon_Jester  almost 11 years ago

    This is the first Mutt and Jeff strip I remember reading in the paper when was a kid.

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    Thomas Scott Roberts creator almost 11 years ago

    Considering the great red scare, it’s amazing they got away with this one at the time! It’s true, there never has been a nation that practiced communism as KarlMarx described and prescribed. It’s always become a veil for totalitarianism. Yep, human will is weak. Mutt was giving into greed and deception right here. Marx was hugely naive to think his idea would actually work.

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of someone else’s money.

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    Spooky D Cat  almost 11 years ago

    I don’t think Karl Marx considered the effect of communism on intangibles like incentive and creativity. Or as others have said above, the lure of power and totalitarianism. He completely ignored the “human” factor. Thanks, Karl. How many millions have lived in misery because of your hare-brained scheme?

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    derry1  almost 11 years ago

    Sharer and Slayer alike…

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    krisjackson01  almost 11 years ago

    This sort of illustrates the old joke, “Under capitalism, man oppresses man, but under communism, it’s the other way around.”

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    Number Three  almost 11 years ago

    Oh no, Jeff…. What did you do THIS time?

    LOL xxx

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    Tyrnn  almost 11 years ago

    I remember an experiment in school I heard about, where the teacher taught the fallacies of Communism by having a shared grade on tests. The smarter kids were upset they got Cs for their perfect papers, and the slackers did even >less< work the longer it went on. The smart kids stopped caring, and the class average plummeted to Fs rather quickly.

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 11 years ago

    Reminds me of a few Abbott and Costello routines, where Bud tries to cheat Lou but winds up being cheated instead.

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    scrabblefiend  almost 11 years ago

    And with the changes in Russia, now they have lots of multi-millionaires, and a Russian Mafia, etc. And they still have lots of poor people.

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    Tin Can Twidget  almost 11 years ago

    The first form of government by the Pilgrims was communism. It didn’t work for the above reasons. Why work when you get an equal share of food from the community store house.

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