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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Marxism is just a sorry excuse for a few educated elites to use the un educated masses to ged rid of the middle class, the only group that really threatens the upper class elites. A strong Middle class is what makes western governments strong.
The whole Marxist ideal doesn't work in reality because human nature disallows for such a theory to ever work beyond a book. Karl's ideal would require everyone to be selfless, while some people have shown great acts of selfless behavior, humanity as a whole is a selfcentered beast and allways has been.
China is trying to creat a middle class through controled capitolism while maintaining a dictatorship. It won't happen if they really build a true middle class because a middle class that thinks for itself invaribly ends up democratic if not out right republic.
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It doesn't require people to be selfless. It just requires the working class to band together and work in their own interests instead of the interests of the middle class. Those interests being capital growth and nationalism among other things.
Some would argue that the revolution is yet to happen.
What we're seeing is a globalized society which is diluting nations and is increasingly becoming a world where the biggest differences are not between cultures or regions but between the haves and the have nots.
In a hundred years or so when those differences become profound we might see the true communist revolution take place... or we might not and history will take a completely different turn.
I can see a neo-fuedal age as a possibility also. An age where there is no middle class. Just an upper class and a working class whose only worth is a market one.
Or perhaps the status quo will remain.
Who knows.
Who knows... what we do know is that the USSR and China were not communist revolutions.