One day you will wake up behind the eyes of a human being that does not have to go to work for some asshole profiteer.
Maybe they'll be enjoying a post-scarcity utopia where bigotry, disease and old age are all things of the past, maybe they'll be hunting deer and avoiding the last functioning police killbots in the ruins of DC. Either way this shit will be over, no longer even a memory.
I hope you have a good Wednesday. :meow-hug:
"Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes." Manifesto
Only difference now is that the proletariate can only liberate itself by univesalizing the proletariate condition and transcending class struggle entirely thereby - which means it must also be a global struggle. So this final titanic revolution must either be socialism or barbarism, nothing in between.
I'm skeptical of the idea that there will ever be a single, globe-straddling revolutionary period. That strikes me as just a secular reimagining of the Abrahamic notion of history as a moral drama, one that begins with the fall from grace and ends with ultimate salvation.
There will be starts and stops, victories and losses, whole generations born and died while capitalism decays and socialist upheavels alternately take root and flounder in different spaces. Eventually our descendants may live in a mostly-communist world, but even then I expect there to be capitalist holdovers much like there are still fuedal monarchies today.
Well considering how volatile capitalism is and how connected the neoliberal economy is globally, is it not possible that capitalism could he reduced to a non viable state fairly quickly (as in maybe 3 or 4 decades) via cascading supply chain failures and as a result, collapsing military power?
I guess anything is possible, but capital has proven relentlessly adaptable in the past. Unless the US itself collapses on the federal level, then all bets are off.
I'm sleep deprived, could I have that second paragraph translated into Caveman or something
Workers can only win by making everyone a worker, this is unlike all previous revolutions and class struggle and makes workers unique in history.
Following from this, that all class struggle leads to a revolutionary reconstitution of society or the common ruin of the contending classes, and that workers can only succeed by making everyone a worker - the socialist struggle has to lead to world communism or climate change apocalypse. At least, that's what I took from those. @Bluegrass_Buddhist had a different take if you're interested as well.
Thank you. I’m not certain how one would make everyone have skin in the game when we’re working within a system which encourages a lack of consequences, or at least the ability to pass the buck an unlimited number of times. I suppose we’ll have to figure that out.