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source: mastodon
date: 2019-08-04 17:21:23.17 +00
title: "Mastodon post from August 4, 2019, 102559860853146773"
post_uri: https://mastodon.social/users/gravely/statuses/102559860853146773
post_id: 102559860853146773
tags:
  - mastodon
---
So @Target@twitter.com is selling a Monopoly “Socialism” edition now? [https://www.target.com/p/parody-monopoly-socialism-board-game/-/A-76151691](https://www.target.com/p/parody-monopoly-socialism-board-game/-/A-76151691)

A short, fun letter from Marx regarding the political economist Henry George, who inspired Lizzie Maggie to invent The Landlord’s Game, the precursor to Monopoly: [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/letters/81_06_20.htm](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/letters/81_06_20.htm)