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The only effective means the poor and the working class (proletariat) have is their force in numbers. I mean, tag on a name you want; revolution, 'democratic revolution' (undoubtedly more politically correct), or forcible overthrow of existing social conditions (as Marx puts it); it's the only means by which class antagonisms can end.
| Their will always be rich and poor. We can never eliminate the rich or the poor no matter what we do. We can wage revolution. I think what is necessary is making America more environmentally friendly to the planet, close the growing gap between rich and poor and make America a socially mobile society. I have accepted the fact that rich and poor will always exist. But right now, their is a war being waged by the ruling class on the poor. Rather than trying to create a more just society, the ruling class is now seeking to create a more unjust society. We have a society where increasingly, if you are born poor, you die poor. The poor are not "undeserving." Everybody deserves to live the American dream and not just the ruling class. Right now, America is a society were only the rich are permitted to live the American dream. It is unacceptable. My generation will make less money than my parents generation and social mobility is now a myth rather than a reality in America. |