An interviewer once ended his talk with Karl Marx by asking, "What is?" and Marx responded, "Struggle."
Happy Birthday To A Guy Who Knew How To Get Things Done:
I want to get so far away, so quickly, from Marxism I'm afraid my Joe Lapchicks' are going to have a blow out. Strive and Struggle for a new hell on earth - sign me up!
If Marxs' message as reported above was simply "Struggle", man, I feel sorry for Marxists. They have to be the most bitter, disillusioned, disappointed, frustrated human beings around. Struggle brings pain. Pain brings stagnation. Incapacitation leads to depression. Then a sad, lonely death.
This so-called Socialism being promoted by the well-fed lefties is nothing more than centralized controlled capitalism. Why don't they ever call for abolition of the Federal Reserve, the root of all evil? They must be content with the exchange system as it stands, they just want to run it. "Meet the New Boss same as the Old Boss", as Townsend says.
I have seen too much false hope delivered by Trotskyites. They always fail in rallying people because they cynically don't have much of a care for those they express to represent and lead. Democracy is only smoke and mirrors to fool the liberals. Workers are cogs in the machine and when the new machine is built those workers will be placed in the same spot. No more leisure time, nothing special about it. Socialist cops will kick the crap out of you as well, or better, than the ones we have today.
Lovestoneites took over the AFL-CIO and stripped any essence of fight for the American worker. Settling for crumbs from the elites' table is all they are good for, or maybe squashing any dissent on the jobsite on behalf of the employer. All under the deceitful guise of "trade unionism". Staffers of these organizations are like hoodwinked Masons, never knowing what the game really is.
It's not the Revolution I fear, it's the counter-revolution. Health Care For All will be replaced by fear of survival. The pension crisis will be solved by supra-accelerated attrition. Food will be harvested by slave labor (slave labor being the instance communism and capitalism have in common). The one train will run on time. The oligarchs will still run the show and have a Party while doing it.
What exactly are Marxists struggling for? More struggle? I have to find another way or my mental health will deteriorate more than it has. I have to learn to deal with the pathological sickness of this society on a day to day basis and stop struggling for some perceived better future for all; all dreams and all false. I have to be released from struggle in order to find peace while carrying a deep concern for my loved ones around me, and with what is left, for those in the circle outside them. It's time for some redesign of collective thought because the old templates of organization in the working class have been co-opted and corrupted. The power is not in the myth of the Party, working class power is in our minds and our willingness to change the deeply held ideology of capitalism/competition/consumerism that is destroying our lives.
Uncle Joe ain't no role model.
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