"I will take my death into my own hands. The State has no business giving me the authority to die - or the authority to live. Matthew Parris"
“class struggle is a central element in the analysis of social change.....”
"Change we can believe in....." Candidate Barack Obama
Social change.....giving the poor a leg up...collective Democracy where the untaxed poor are invited to raise the taxes on the greedy rich folk....Robin Hood stealing from the rich to feed the poor, minus of course, his operating expenses....
Karl Marx was a profound thinker who won legions of supporters around the world but his predictions have not withstood the test of time.
His adherents fomented the bloody revolution that toppled the Tsars of Russia and fired the imagination of the world. Utopian dreamers everywhere responded to the drumbeat of social change and predicted a world-wide change where the capitalistic bourgeois would be ground under the triumphant feet of the proletariat ushering in a world wherein "From each according to ability, to each according to his needs" would be the norm. Social change, the future of the world.
During the first half of the twentieth century, Marxism had taken firm roots but in the second half, the Marxist dream collapsed. The people of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania and the USSR rejected Marxism and entered the ongoing transition toward private property rights and market-exchange system; ie, capitalism or as we call it in the USA, Republican Democracy.
Countries that have had socialism forced upon them (not the most advanced capitalist countries) the poor, so-called Third World countries condemned the masses to systemic poverty and political dictatorship.
Ah well, some dreams die hard.
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