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Marxism is good for Wall Street, bad for the Proletariat! by Leon Fisher Good news, Comrades -- Marxism has triumphed! Unfortunately it is not the Proletariat but the Capitalists which have assumed the role of the downtrodden masses in yet another attempt to loot the working men and women of America.
What irony that those who have done their best to discredit any and all economic thinking sympathetic to the common working man suddenly find it palatable when it benefits themselves. Engels, Marx, and Lenin must be spinning in their graves. This Socialism for the wealthy, as many have viewed this latest money grab by Wall Street, will trump all previous taxpayer shakedowns, surpassing even that of the Savings & Loan rip off of the late 1980s. As usual the corporate-controlled press and their political stooges in Congress have done their worst to convince the American people that somehow this trillion dollar giveaway to the Wall Street money changers is in some way in the best interests of Main Street America. Nothing can be further from the truth. America 2008 is bankrupt. The goose which laid the golden egg has been killed by the unrestrained greed of Wall Street, as well as the political corruption and cowardice in Washington. The working man in America has for decades been the target of a 'take no prisoners' Wall Street strategy, and on the losing side of this war the working man has seen the decimation of his workplace and standard of living through outsourcing, high fuel prices, inflation, and stagnant wages. The American worker is finally at the end of his tether. Resorting to fear mongering, the Washington talking heads are telling people that without the banks and investment houses the economy will crash unless we give them our money. This assertion is pure nonsense as the economy will crash whether Wall Street gets the taxpayers' money or not, so thoroughly have they plundered the Country. They have only themselves to blame for the unethical financial practices which created this mess in the first place and the working man should not be forced to bail them out. In the midst of all this turmoil we should not lose sight of the fact that It is still the worker who through his sweat and toil is the creator of wealth, not the other way around. Capitalism creates nothing, and in order to profit must exploit the worker. By overworking and underpaying workers, the Capitalist profits while the worker is eventually forced into a lifetime of debt. Keeping this in mind, very few people outside of a small group of Wall Street insiders, shareholders, and corrupt politicians would care if Wall Street were to crash, never to return. From this otherwise gloomy scenario comes what hopefully can be seen as the beginnings of an awakening of the collective consciousness to the exploitation and class warfare of the working man by the ruling capitalist robber barons and their political lackeys in Washington. As we are learning, It is no longer in the interests of the working man here in America, or for that matter in the World, to continue supporting an economic/political system that's agenda, despite its present woes, is the establishment a society in which a small minority of elitists possess 90 percent of the wealth and all political power while the rest of humanity languishes in poverty without any real representation in government.  | Latest entry | Recent entries | Older entries | |
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