Many blogs posted this Karl Marx quote lately and some people get it via forwarded emails and text messages:

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.
Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867

Sounds really good, doesn’t it? It’s like he’s about to say “and then Barack Obama will come as save the day with his renewable energy masterplan!”

However, when searching through the Das Kapital book this quote is nowhere to be found. Where did it come from? Nostradamus maybe? (It was Trzisno resenje to spot the oddity first.)

As a curiosity, this mystery did not stop Politika and Vecernje Novosti from publishing entire articles based on the alleged quotation without checking to see its credibility. Also, the Serbian version of the quote is even more popular on the internet than the English one! Which one was written first?

photo by Binary Ape

If you’ve read the entire Marx, than please help solve the mystery of the ghost Karl Marx quote!

So you are in Belgrade and want to party for the New Year’s eve, eh? And there’s only three days left… don’t worry, Belgrade citizens love to party, so you’ll have a chance of attending the New Year’s eve re-run if you miss the real thing. Some clubs even offer re-run of the re-run if [...]

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There are some who oppose this time lag in Serbia and suggest that we should synchronize the Serbian Orthodox holidays with the mainstream holiday calendar.

But it’s only because they fail to see the advantages! Let me try to list the reasons why we should stick to the current situation.

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As B92 reported some time ago and as the Guardian reports now, Santa Claus is banned from Bosnian kindergartens. Reason for this – it goes against the religious Muslim beliefs and/or Bosniak tradition.
Beside the bizzare fact of introducing religious teaching in kindergartens in the first place, this affair brings many interesting questions.
Is Santa Clause a [...]

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Music band Vrelo is having problems getting popular home in Serbia, despite the fact that the songs they are performing are all traditional Serbian songs (in modern production).
On the other hand, they are doing pretty good abroad. Here they are on BBC’s “Next Big thing” show, where last year they won second place:

It’s not the [...]

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Long time since we had a net2reality post here. I’ve been wanting to write one after the Croatian govt. caused all that fuss with the Facebook couple of weeks ago, but I figured it was covered enough by other medias.

However, there wasn’t so much talk about kids using the social media to promote nationalism, hate and fascism.

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An interesting way of fighting movie piracy: movie distributor Tuck decided not to run film “What Just Happened” in Belgrade cinemas because the copy of the movie is already freely available on the internet but it’s also possible to buy it at black market stands in the city.

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Finally an article about Belgrade not examining it’s “vibrant nightlife”, “posh cafes” and “beautiful women”.
Irish Tribune brings a review of Belgrade that tries to examine the political and social situation – which is admittedly filled with negative trends and nationalistic tensions.
Unfortunately it seems as if the journalist was a bit too young, naive [...]

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