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March 6, 2010

Marx and Engels Today

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One can only imagine how Marx and Engels would rip into the pompous, self-deceptive ideas and theories with which our elites surround and comfort themselves today. 
The Asian Industrial Revolution, that enormous upheaval destroying the past social organizations and customs from China through India and Pakistan today, in reality is an affair of grinding poverty, immense human suffering and displacement, exploitation as naked and hideous as anything the London poor faced in the days of Charles Dickens, and vast contrasts between the lives of the working poor and the new rich.  Yet in the view of what Marx might well call the "Davoisie"€™, the new international bourgeoisie of our times, all that ugliness and suffering disappears.  It's expected somehow that those struggling masses will go on "peacefully" suffering and working without disturbing the peaceful stability of the comfortable and the rich. -- Literary Saturday: The Communist Manifesto - Walter Russell Mead

Posted by Vanderleun at March 6, 2010 11:39 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Posted by: O Bloody Hell at March 6, 2010 12:08 PM

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