Celebrities Are the New Proletariat

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Russell Brand has international fame and a net worth of $15 million, and also used to bang Katy Perry. Nevertheless, in his own mind, he is one of the downtrodden toilers struggling to overthrow the greedy oppressive parasitical regime of bourgeois capitalism:

“A socialist egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of wealth, heavy taxation of corporations and massive responsibility for energy companies and any companies exploiting the environment. I think the very concept of profit should be hugely reduced.”

 

Spare me these pseudo-Bolshevik ravings from movie-star Marxists. Go read Friedrich Hayek’s “The Intellectuals and Socialism.”

 

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  2. Yeah Rus, if you give away $14.5 MM of your $15 MM then I’ll believe your anti-capitalist claptrap. I’ll think you’re a loon, but I will believe you.

  5. I have no problem with redistributing Mr Brand’s wealth and income, especially if it is redistributed to me. I just don’t want my income redistributed to sorry asses who won’t work.

  7. He does realize that would mean about 80% of his 15 million, right? Oh wait, he probably believes he would be exempt and only corporate profits and those of evil white males would up for appropriation. Schizophrenia.

  9. Thank you, Russell Brand, for those penetrating insights into economics. Next up, Jack Black will be offering his critique of the theological doctrine of transubstantiation….

  10. A socialist egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of
    wealth, heavy taxation of corporations and massive responsibility for
    energy companies and any companies exploiting the environment. I think
    the very concept of profit should be hugely reduced.”

    He only means crap like that in the abstract as part of an intellectual exercise. If put into practice he would quickly switch from Labour to Thatcherism.

  12. Bwhahahahahahahaha!
    Snort!
    Bwhahahahahahahaha!

    Another celbritwit reveals himself as a what he really is. I don’t know how stupid they sound when they say these things.

  14. Yeah, “massive redistribution of wealth…the very concept of profit should be hugely reduced.”

    You first, Russell. Show us how it’s done, ’cause we’re too dumb to figure it out for ourselves. Moron.

  15. I really don’t see how, but yeah. I think mainly due to who he was married to. And no, I don’t know much about her either.

  16. 80%?

    You’re low balling it. If the lefties want to redistribute, have them go for as much as possible. Liquidate their holdings first!

    >:)

  17. He’s not a bad comic, in a decadent-buffoonish-Brit kind of way. Sort of like Oscar Wilde and the Dude had a child.

  26. What do you even call the mental illness he’s suffering from? It’s wild. I mean, here’s a man who has benefited immensely from the capitalist system, and that’s the only system that would bequeath him 15 million dollars because he would be useless in any other system and would be working on a factory line, and he believes that his own fortune should be massively redistributed to junkies and looters? Now I’m not saying that everyone who needs public assistance is a leech. Some people are truly in need, suffer from physical and/or mental disabilities that make it difficult to work, etc. and im not against some kind of social safety net, but come on, a lot of people who live off the public system are simply scammers and that’s who wealth would be massively redistributed to. Well them and the NSA to spy on you.

  27. He’s a retard. The system that allowed him to be “Russel Brand”, celebrity, with 15 million dollars ,and former husband of Katy Perry, is the capitalist system, and he want’s to have a socialist one? WHY? Fuck that. If I had 15 million I’d be hiding it as far away from government as humanely possible and would be voting for every low tax politician I could find and not, like some twit, advocating my own money get confiscated!

  29. If you show up at the house and say “honey she followed me home. Can I keep her?” It prolly won’t work.

    There are two things wives tend to be veeeeery narrow minded about,

    1. Your paycheck
    2. Other women.

    Not necessarily in that order.

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