Postby avowedly-agnostic » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:37 am
[quote]In my opinion Marxism is an unatainable Utopia and Marxs theories were based on the narrow interpretation of what was occuring in Europe during the birth of the Industrial Revolution and its afteraffects.[/quote]
Unattainable utopia? That’s what the Capitalists would like you to believe. They would like you to think that a Socialist revolution which creates a classless society & where no one group is economically elevated over the rest is impossible. Even Marx didn’t imagine that there would be a Communist revolution in Russia, he thought that such a revolution would occur in the more industrially developed Western Europe. But, the communist utopia which Marx envisioned occurred in Russia because the workers of that country decided that they’d had enough of Capitalism where the wealth was concentrated into the hands of the minority ruling class. By organizing themselves into democratic councils and committees, they throw off the handicapping chains of Capitalism which had impoverished them.
[quote]Its rare meeting a marxist these days[quote]
Marxists are a rare phenomena? Are you kidding me? You make us sound like a handful dying breed of leftists who are close to extinction. I don't know where it is you currently reside, but you're terribly mistaken if you think that Marxists are a dwindling minority. In England alone, there are tens of thousand of Marxists in our political party: the Socialist Workers Party. There is also another Marxist party who we differ in ideology, the Socialist Party whose members in London alone is some where in the region of a 1,000. The left (Communist/Socialist parties) in Europe, and in particular, Germany, France, and Portugal has made significant gains in recent elections.
Latin America is also in revolt. Revolt against what do I hear you cry? The workers of Latin America are revolting against the multinational corporations that have plundered and robbed the natural resources of that continent. Latin America is telling Capitalism where it can stick its neo-liberal policies of exploitation. Proof of this can be seen in the electoral gains made by the left such as the recent election of the left-wing President Eva Morales and his party, Movement for Socialism in Bolivia; the election of the Socialist Michelle Bachelet of Chile, the election of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, not to mention President lula of Brazil, and many other countries in Latin America are seeing Marxist, leftist mass movements posing a real threat to the servile Capitalist establishment. The peoples of Latin America are demanding (and rightly so) a greater say in their economy.
As Karl Marx said "The proletarians of the world have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win...†In fact, in a recent poll done by the BBC (the main radio and television broadcasting corporation of the UK) Karl Marx was voted by voters as the most revered philosopher to have ever lived. And you say Marx’s ideas are outdated? I THINK NOT.
[url=http://www.marxist.com/announcements/karl-marx-bbc-vote140705.htm][/url]
I'm confused