As students, children of yesterday and today are being brought up to believe the United States is a “Democracy”, and that we are a pluralistic society. We were taught the “working class” had a say-so in elections and that power was widely distributed. This, however, is a myth. The fact is, power is held by only a few (an oligarchy). The elites in this oligarchy hold the power in big business and government offices are not for the interest of the common people or “working class” whether it be health care, a good education, enough to eat, affordable housing etc…These elites or “owning class” are out for profit and will use the “working class” by paying low wages, outsourcing, cutting benefits, anything to make profits soar.
[...] is up. They sometimes act as spokesmen for corporate elites and/or gain seats in government administrations. These elites have control over the “working class”. The government can make the decisions that effect the working class lives and corporations can make the calls that effect the lives of the working class such as set wages, outsource, pink slips etc And the common person which is what I will refer to as the “working class” from here on, are in no position to take on these corporate capitalists. [...]
[...] In the meantime, these corporate capitalist elites say they are “putting their money to work” when in all reality, they are pushing more production out of these uninformed couch potatoes and paying less wages while they kick back and watch their profits soar. At the same time, between housing costs, medical costs, the cost of food and lesser wages, the common person is almost worse off than they have been since the great depression. In the Communist-Manifesto, Karl Marx says that the state appears to be nothing but an “executive committee (excomm) of the bourgeoisie.” The government is nothing but an executive committee; it may look like a government but it's just a committee that manages the country for the bourgeoisie (the middle class, a social group opposed to the proletariat in the class struggle; the capitalist class). [...]
[...] What do you do about it? Under excomm, or Classical Marxism, the executive committee leads to smash state which leads to bureaucracy which leads to hierarchy which leads to oligarchy which ultimately makes up fascism. Under excomm, the only way to do away with the power elites was through a bloody revolution to overthrow the government. Classical Marxists believe the state is a tool of class under which the capitalists use to control the people. Neo-Marxists, however, found the excomm concept flawed. [...]
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