"The global billionaire capital class and their technocratic lackeys are using the practical tenets of Marxism to monopolize control over workers rather than free them. "
That, in fact, is why the uber-capitalists of the time created "Communism" and Marx was just another well paid clown, lackey, and mouthpiece who wrote what he was told to write.
“… men of wealth use the communist movement to bend workers to their will. So I quite willingly adopted the clichés about secrecy being necessary because of the brutality and savagery of the working-class enemies. I soon learned that the members exposed to the public were not the important Communists.”
"Answer: I don’t think it is possible to save Marx. I think we need to learn the lessons of Marxism and then abandon Marx altogether."
Yup. He belongs in the ash can of history. We now seem to hear little of him any longer probably because the oligarchs have little further use of him. To them we're all disposable.
It is good to have someone who keeps tabs on what is going on. I think that you could run for a political office yourself. It is just a suggestion but feels right.
If Vicki's post was this year, I can only say that she will soon be joining the very large pile of corpses. It's like celebrating becoming a heroin addict and telling your friends, but this drug is more deadly than heroin, indeed.
"The global billionaire capital class and their technocratic lackeys are using the practical tenets of Marxism to monopolize control over workers rather than free them. "
That, in fact, is why the uber-capitalists of the time created "Communism" and Marx was just another well paid clown, lackey, and mouthpiece who wrote what he was told to write.
“… men of wealth use the communist movement to bend workers to their will. So I quite willingly adopted the clichés about secrecy being necessary because of the brutality and savagery of the working-class enemies. I soon learned that the members exposed to the public were not the important Communists.”
-Bella Dodd, School of Darkness, Ch 6
https://archive.org/details/school-of-darkness
"Answer: I don’t think it is possible to save Marx. I think we need to learn the lessons of Marxism and then abandon Marx altogether."
Yup. He belongs in the ash can of history. We now seem to hear little of him any longer probably because the oligarchs have little further use of him. To them we're all disposable.
It is good to have someone who keeps tabs on what is going on. I think that you could run for a political office yourself. It is just a suggestion but feels right.
If Vicki's post was this year, I can only say that she will soon be joining the very large pile of corpses. It's like celebrating becoming a heroin addict and telling your friends, but this drug is more deadly than heroin, indeed.