Understanding Marx: Class Struggle

Class conflict

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See the flour war for instance. They were represented by the proletarian Jacobins. The revolution worked, but directly after the uprising heads started rolling. The former allies of the worker party were the first to go. Then a despotic emperor who called himself a liberal took over.

Marx, seeing the rise of industrialization around him assumed that he was witnessing the final form of capitalism. Later we would see the Roosevelts, Keynes, and Social Liberalism. Unions would get a foothold and voters more rights.

Social security programs and assistance programs would create a safety net, and a mixed market would bear great fruit. Moving forward, we can question if perhaps the next step is a more enlightened form of Capitalism. Equality and liberty go hand-in-hand, and people are incentive based creatures. Just like neoclassical synthesis respects Keynes and Smith, perhaps the next step forward is one that simply respects both Marx and Mill.

Ought I, then, to join the Labour Party? Superficially that is more attractive. But looked at closer, there are great difficulties. To begin with, it is a class party, and the class is not my class. If I am going to pursue sectional interests at all, I shall pursue my own.

When it comes to the class struggle as such, my local and personal patriotisms, like those of every one else, except certain unpleasant zealous ones, are attached to my own surroundings. I can be influenced by what seems to me to be justice ad good sense; but the Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie. The Bloody History of Communism Full. See my theory of the separation of powers and element theory.

It touches on how the classes can balance each other without eliminating or dominating each other. I see this, with a market-based system and a social safety-net as the best way forward. Likewise, early in his career, Marx had no economic theory. The Classical Economists of England and France, such as the favourite of conservatives or capitalists: Adam Smith, along with David Ricardo, Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Fourier, James Mill, John Stewart Mill and several others were the original formulators of what became the Labour Theory of Value in Political Economy; and it was the most recent of these, Karl Marx, who tidied up their errors and loose ends into a fully comprehensive analysis of the workings of capitalism.

His main popular work is called Capital.

We are showing the world what it is in fact fighting for; and consciousness is something the world must acquire, even if it does not want to. Find out more about it.

The stupid call it stupid, the squalid call it squalid, It is against squalor and against stupidity. The exploiters call it a crime, But we know it is the end of crime. It is the simple thing so hard to achieve. You have to ask why they keep screaming democracy, freedom and human rights at us from the rooftops when we have neither. When capitalists talk of democracy, freedom or human rights, they always mean one thing only — capitalism, which by its very nature can have neither. Having allowed allowed profits from capitalism to dominate every aspect of our lives, has given us less human rights to the means of life itself than a prehistoric hunter gatherer.

As the MP who instigated the NHS Aneurin Nye Bevan found, parliament is just for public consumption, to fool the population into believing that we live under some kind of democracy, and noted that real power in Britain lies two miles to the east of parliament, in the corporate, financial and banking City of London. We are ruled by their corporate lobbying of parliament and their wealthy capitalist MPs, not any democracy.

Any other socio-economic classification is not only totally meaningless but deliberately misleading in order to confuse any socio-economic thinking. Capitalist propaganda continuously tries to make people believe that Marxism is about communism. Marxism is neither about communism nor a plan for communism, it never has been.

Mainstream capitalist education and media deliberately hides the fact that Marxism is a thorough analysis of capitalism and how it works. However as a critique of capitalism, Marxism certainly implies the socialist solution to the horrors of capitalism. But Marxists leave the establishment, implementing and planning of socialist society up to each population or country to decide according to their different levels of historically existing conditions.

As mainstream propaganda never tires from telling us, it is certainly true that a socialist economy, just like any other economy, can have problems. But they are not problems of socialism or anything to do with socialist economics itself.

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If socialist countries have problems they are usually problems of production or distribution. As an imagined example, there may have been a shortage of toothpaste and a glut of toothbrushes on one side of town and the opposite on the other. But these problems are a result of errors or mistakes in planning or management of production or distribution of goods, not problems inherent in socialism. And even the most mildly socialist countries or any trying to resist imperialist domination are forced to operate under economic boycotts and blockades by the capitalist world.

Socialist Cuba is a classical example of this. Compare the problems of socialism with the very real and serious problems of capitalism all over the world and we see that the problems of capitalism are immensely vast and horrific compared with those of socialism. Capitalism is completely anarchic and brutally competitive, both in terms of its competition with every other capitalist and every other country, and most especially in its fierce opposition to the working class majority everywhere. It has a vast world of inherent problems and massive contradictions, which are not possible to solve under capitalism.

Capitalism has problems of having to destroy massive unsellable surpluses of overproduced food because it is unprofitable on the one hand, and on the other hand underproduction of desperately needed necessities such as food and medicines; again because it is not profitable. The capitalist world has mass poverty, starvation and the deaths of many millions of people in a vastly abundant world, millions of these being children. It has massive problems of homelessness along with unsellable building land and building materials on one hand, and unemployed building workers on the orher.

The capitalist world is full of the continuing plunder of other nations of their cheap labour and raw materials. It perpetuates massively underdevelopment of countries in case they become independent or economic rivals or competitors. It maintains the massive wealth of a very small section of society alongside the poverty, homelessness, hunger and starvation of the overwhelming majority in this deeply troubled world.

These are problems which continue to exist after more than a century of advanced capitalism. No socialist nation has had any of these problems.

Redistribution of capitalist owned wealth under any kind of social reformism, as in so-called social democracy, is impossible as capitalism by its very nature cannot be reformed in favour of the working class and therefore can never solve any of the problems inherent in capitalism. Only genuine socialism based firmly on Marxist economic principles can ever solve these problems: Contrary to capitalist propaganda, the exporting of socialism has never been a Marxist, Socialist or Communist policy.

That is their own business. Nobody will ever want to change the capitalist system by force, to impose socialism… nobody will ever want to do that. No one can think that the contradiction between capitalism and socialism can be settled by force. But it will come at a time when it is considered possible or necessary by the revolutionaries in these countries.

Such is the march of history. Socialism grows only on the soil of objective requirements of the social development of each particular country. Where are its monopoly corporations?

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Where is its participation in multinational companies? What factories, what mines, what oilfields does it own in the underdeveloped world? Soviet cooperation with Cuba and many other countries is based not on the sweat and sacrifice of exploited workers of other countries, but on the labour and efforts of the Soviet people. But it has always been a capitalist aim to force the capitalist system on the rest of the world. On the other hand, capitalism is exported all over the world, yesterday as colonialism, today as imperialism, creating misery and death for many millions of humanity all over this very rich and abundant world: The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination.

It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful. The idea of peaceful coexistence is simply humbug. We should assume this leadership, and the responsibility that goes with it, primarily for reasons of pure national self interest.

The only question is whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest. Capitalism of necessity must always stagnate within the limiting confines of its native national demographic boundary and must be exported to other countries, first as colonialism, and now as imperialism, plundering them of their vast resources of cheap labour and raw materials, and to flood their markets with otherwise unsellable surplus capitalist products in order for capitalism to survive without an inevitable collapse: French, meaning owners of capital, capitalists, adopted by Classical Economics, Political Economy, Marxism etc.

Every socialist minded person needs to study the basics of Marxist economics and understand it so as to be able to prove it, to categorically refute the deliberately misleading myths of capitalist economics. Only then will the popular majority be masters of society, and start to change the not only ridiculous but inherently murderous socio-economic division of society between the class of capitalists — the comparatively few owners of the means of production of social wealth, and the working class — the vast majority rest of society who own nothing but their ability to work for whatever wages the capitalist few decide to pay.

It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. US economist David Korten.

Shivering miners could not dig the coal they needed, naked men could not weave their shirts and coats, nor could the man who lived seven in a single room enter a brickyard and build himself a house; though he kicked his heels for a dozen years in idleness, he must remain in misery if no one could make a profit from his labour. The public that needed these things and could produce them had no access to the land and machinery of production. Private profit took precedence of human life. Christian morality, if it was to be true to its mission, must find these things intolerable and demand reform.

Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Superb Marxism Mr President! When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic.

Marx said this, and so did [US founding President. The same ideas appeared long before Marx: The following five quotes are from the economist beloved of capitalists or conservatives, the Scottish Classical Economist Adam Smith, all of which are identical to Marxism and later developed fully by Marx: Whereas sociological functionalists posited the existence in a society of some religion or a substitute for it Comte, incidentally, propounded a positivistic religion, somewhat in the spirit of the French Revolution , the Marxists implied the disappearance of religion in a classless society.

The key division lay between the members of the middle class, who owned businesses or acquired professional education, and those of the working class, who depended on the sale of labour for a wage. Neither group was homogeneous. The political conflict between the count of Flanders, the king of France, and the partriciate opened the way for the craftsmen to score a military victory in This led to the constitutional recognition of….

The bourgeoisie controls governmental machinery in its own interests. In its international relations, the capitalist state engages in wars because it is driven by the dynamism of its system—the constantly growing need for raw materials, markets, and supplies of…. Marx derived his views in part from the philosophy of G.

Class and class struggle were related concepts that occupied a central place in the ideology, and a specific aim of education was to develop class consciousness so that all citizens, young and old, would become valiant fighters in the class struggle. School regulations stipulated that 10 percent….

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