karl marx

Are you a smart person? Did you study philosophy? Are you into...theory? Well, these memes are for you. They're heady. They're philosophical. And they love to name-check Foucault. While we're not expecting everyone to *get* each image macro, we love that they exist at the bizarre intersection of academia and easily digestible humor. And if you crave more? Check out Welcome to the Desert of the Meme. The page is in the process of pivoting to Instagram, but you can soak up their classics on the ol' FB. 

If you didn't pay much attention during history or hate reading dumb books, these memes might help you seem smarter. They won't help you write an award-winning essay, but they might help you in random conversation or when you're trying to impress someone who is only moderately intelligent. So who said memes have no educational value?

'Mom can you give me money' memes are a hilariously exploitable comic where a kid asks their mom for money supposedly to buy ice cream, but then goes off to buy something else entirely. The memes very relatable for anyone (read: all of us) who has snuck around their parents to buy something they weren't supposed to.

These memes might not reveal the meaning of life, but they'll definitely trigger anyone who studied philosophy in school. For more of this theory goodness, visit Welcome to the desert of the meme on Facebook, or look through our lists of scholarly memes that will get you thinking so deeply even Descartes would be impressed.

These memes will make you want to quit Stalin and overthrow capitalism right Mao.