Thomas_More
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Yes, but that’s the tragedy: that the masses as a whole need to act on it in order to change things.
Advanced modern capitalism has, contrary to Marx’s expectations, eradicated the class consciousness that was evident when industrial capitalism was young, and before. The consolidation of the modern nation-state has obliterated it.
Mass literacy happened, and is now, in the 21st century, in retreat. Knowledge of the world, of history, is at an all-time low. Evolution is not understood nor accepted by the majority of humans.
The possibility of an informed social revolution by the masses has retreated into the mist. The more suicidal damage capitalism wreaks and the more blatant it becomes, the more its idols are worshipped, as, in the most industrial and technologically advanced parts of the world, alienation and superstitions increase. While science advances on one hand, it does not translate into mass awareness on the other.Things are the very opposite of what our founders were expecting to result from the development of capitalism back in 1904, heirs that they were of 19th century enthusiasm for the future.
I think the frame of mind of most people throughout history is that the society they inhabit, the way things are organised and done, is natural and forever.
Talk of changing it, beyond this or that reform, is seen as a crazy notion of fanatical minorities whose minds are “not in the real world”; small pockets of overgrown adolescents, who need to “get a life.” (Which is precisely what socialism would give to everyone!)
My late teens and young to middling adulthood were spent waiting for life to begin. Now in my sixties, it is spent in nostalgia for my past. The only time I felt that I was living was my childhood.
My feelings are those of the theme song to Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads: “… the only thing to look forward to is the past.”Still talk about sending troops.
So Bijou, you do think the talk of war with Russia means there will be war between Europe and Russia soon?
And does Canada really think that it and Europe can militarily challenge Russia without US military backing? Or are they just awaiting a new US president, which is why we are being given the year 2030 as the kick off for WW3? (If they are really so stupid as to think capital accumulation can continue when the workers are all dead and all resources destroyed)?
They themselves in their bunkers will eventually run out of oxygen and food.
