In March 2025, a screenshot with the tweet of the richest man of the planet and sarcastic comments about his ignorance were dispersed over the network. We checked whether Musk really wrote this.
On March 22, the alleged quote of the billionaire Shared In the social network X Russian music critic Artemy Troitsky. His tweet with the ironic commentary “Smart, educated person” at the time of writing this analysis gained almost 300,000 views, causing violent discussions among other users. Many, like Troitsky himself, decidedthat close adviser to the President of the United States seriously called Marx the capitalist, since he wrote a book about this, and jokedthat, according to this logic, "Dostoevsky was an idiot", and "Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were snails and lived on a slope." The screenshot with the alleged tweet of the mask also spread widely in Facebook, Telegram, Livejournal and other social networks.
In the screenshot published by Troitsky, it is clear that the tweet of Marx was a response to previous posts of the mask and user with the @antvenom username. "Verified" found complete correspondencewhich took place on June 16, 2018.
It began with tweet Mask: "Those who call themselves socialists are usually dull, without a sense of humor and studied in expensive colleges." When @antvenom asked who the billionaire himself considers himself, he replied: "Socialist." Then he Added: “Marx was a capitalist. He even wrote a book about it. ” The American businessman obviously meant "Capital" - the main work of the German philosopher and economist, in which he puts capitalist processes into a historical context, and also criticizes both capitalism itself and political systems in which he flourishes.
After half an hour, Mask Published New comments on the original post: ““ Without a sense of humor, ”it really turned out to be true. My God! How many socialists do you need to change the light bulb? Answer: “This is not funny!” ”After that, the owner of the social network of the X subjected to even more criticism from the users:“ It seems to me that it would be a damn funny wealth of 90 percent tax, a parasite, ”-a parasite,”-a parasite. wrote User @nberlat. And @Feljokes Added: "You have a sense of humor of a 13-year-old girl." As a result, two hours after the publication of a post on dull socialists Musk finished The conversation with the phrase: “I'm leaving back to the factory, for today. Do not perceive my tweet too seriously. ”
That is, in the context of correspondence it is clear that a tweet of a mask about Marx is a conscious trolling. In addition, later on the same day a billionaire declaredthat I read “Capital” at the age of 14, in some places the English translation with a German original, and that, of course, Adam Smith is the founder of the idea of a free market - “wins”. So, most likely, the entrepreneur is familiar with the contents of the book and hardly made such a mistake when speaking about the philosophical views of Marx.
In November 2024, the function appeared in X ""Explain this post»Based on the built-in GROK chatbot. “Verified” asked him to analyze the publication of the Mask about Marx to check if the AI, unlike many users, is capable of catching sarcasm in one tweet of the owner Kh.
GROK replied that the “Marx was a capitalist” tweet is part of the correspondence in which Musk is making fun of socialists, and then jokes himself as one of them, thereby illustrating his tendency to make ironic and provocative statements about political ideologies.
Thus, Musk really wrote that Marx was a capitalist, but did it in a sarcastic tone. Nevertheless, a joke torn from context circulates in social networks and causes the outrage of users who are surprised at the ignorance of the billionaire.
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