Class Warfare Struggle

The class warfare struggle was the essential element of Marx. The world in his time and view was divided into just two categories; those who owned the means of production and those who worked for them. In that nineteenth century perspective, the relationship was intensely adversarial. Owners sought maximum profits for themselves to live luxuriously and they way to achieve that was through brutal repression of the laborers. The solution, of course, was for the laborers who grossly outnumbered the owners to rise up and seize the means of production for themselves. Then all would be paradise.

Sounds great in theory but numerous efforts at putting it into practice have demonstrated the failure of the concept.

The basic viewpoint was flawed in that sound business practice requires a productive worker rather than a hostile one. Success requires investment in the enterprise rather than plundering of the resource. Your profits depend on an efficient, well-trained, motivated and loyal work force.

Over time the development of modern business practice has effectively eradicated the bipolar class system. Drawing clear lines between bourgeoisie and proletariat today is impossible. Workers become managers. Companies are owned and managed by shareholders. Workers become shareholders through retirement, profit-sharing and other employee benefit programs. The model of "us" versus "them" exists only in the minds of the politicians today.

Here we see the Messiah bringing no solutions to the table but simply fanning the flames of the Marxist class warfare struggle:

Hedge Fund Managers and Corporate Jet Owners Must Pay!

I particularly like the ignorance of this statement:

"I don't think it's real radical" to ask corporate jet owners and millionaires to pay higher taxes, Obama said.

What makes that ignorant? A "corporate jet" is owned by a corporation. It is the property of the company which is owned by the stockholders. It is used by the directors, managers and senior staff of the enterprise to travel efficiently to places which may not be served directly by airlines and without the time-wasting scheduling and TSA groping which recreational travelers experience.

This clinker comes out of the mouth of a guy who grabs the nation's 747 for a dinner date with his wife.