My old friend Rory Sutherland’s column in the UK edition of the Spectator this week made for startling reading. Only the fact that I was in bed prevented some serious bruising.

It seems Rory, who only married his delightful wife because Mrs. Thatcher was already taken, has become a socialist. In his fortnightly column on technology he argued, quite rightly, that the power of the community is now more powerful than the corporation and, among other things, that hyperlinks destroy hierarchy. He concluded his piece by encouraging wikiers (sic) of the world to unite.

If that’s not communist talk I don’t know what is.

Marx always argued that socialism would come not to agrarian cultures first but to developed and industrialized nations because it was the only possible answer to the eventual crisis in capitalism. You can’t really blame Marx for the fact that so many nut jobs decided to inflict a totalitarian version of his theories on peasant societies before he could be proven right.

The defining tenet of socialism, that the means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned by the community as a whole, is probably the best description of the internet one can write.

Who owns the internet? We all do. Who holds the power? We all do. No hierarchy. No class. No borders.

Not Thatcher or Reagan or even Adam Smith seem so prescient as old Karl. Perhaps the only person it wouldn’t come as a shock to was Lincoln. After all, he talked about a government of the people by the people for the people in 1863. A mere 15 years after Karl published the Communist Manifesto.

It is clear to anyone with a conscience that untrammeled capitalism invariably breeds greed and corruption. It’s equally evident to anyone with a brain that putting a few fanatics in charge generally leads to misery and poverty.

The internet is the synthesis of a corrupt capitalist system and a dictatorship of the proletariat. It makes capitalists honest and destroys oligarchy.

Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis. Pure Marxist dialectic.

Welcome, Comrade Rory.

What famous brother uses the Gotham typeface, pale blue, royal blue, white type and believes in changing the status quo? Not just your friendly neighborhood Brooklyn Brother anymore. It seems Obama has adopted not just our attitude but also our house font and our house colors. We’re happy to help in anyway we can Mr. President Elect. Just remember the brothers when you’re in the White House.

The Brooklyn Brothers are pleased to announce the launch of Fat Pig Chocolate, an organic milk chocolate bar. We created Fat Pig because we like doing the worst things possible to our bodies in the best possible way, and we couldn’t find an organic milk chocolate bar that was worthy enough to be stuffed in our fat faces.

We spent about a year doing taste test after taste test (a dirty job but someone has to…) and finally found the right combination of creaminess, taste and texture. You’ll shortly be able to order some at fatpigchocolate.com and hopefully find it in a few gourmet stores in and around NYC.

Dig in, pig out.

Just in case anyone would like to bid $41.5 billion for the Brooklyn Brothers, we can assure you your offer will not be rejected.