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Re: Marx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx Predicted 2014
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, February 5 2014, 1:55:38 (UTC)
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Marcello wrote:
>An ironic aspect of the World Communist Party was that their endeavor was Internationalism, that is, that the workers of the world, will unite in globally, and run the factories, work places, and take over the means and modes of production and distribution. What happened in instead, was that the Capitalist revolution was the only one which succeeded: Globalization.

...I'll never be comfortable with the idea of being ruled by workers....well, in a way we are, we have been...it's the majority of the electorate, which actually shows up to vote, that chooses our leaders...so in a way, they DO run things...but workers are for the most part badly educated with little or no vision beyond the paycheck and the weekend....where did Marx think exemplary worker/leaders would come from?

In his day it was even worse...there was no mass education...workers were drudges and little more...he certainly didn't work in factories or live among Proles...who did he think would run a worker's party, philosophers?

Capitalism and private lending with the rest of us scrambling to find the interest on those loans, dominates the world...I don't see what uneducated, or doctrinaire workers are going to do to improve anything...the Labor Movement in America and the Unions were our best hope....but the government managed to corrupt them, standing aside or, worse, looking for commies under every bed, while they turned a blind eye to even the existence of the Mafia, let alone their clear path to taking over and then ruining Unions and the Movement...if Americans could get their Unions back and keep them out of the hands of organized crime, including the criminal behavior of our money-managers and politicians...we might get back, or move forward, to a day when people have the material they need to lead meaningful lives...but not so long as Life itself means shopping, buying and then working like a mule to make those things you then consume....that's a rat race no worker benefits from in the end.



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