@coldjoint,
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CNN and the three networks use the Communist Manifesto.
Says someone who doesn't know one thing about the Communist Manifesto.
Quote:The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Yeah, I think I heard this on CNN just the other night.
Quote:The “dangerous class”, [lumpenproletariat] the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.
Trump voters, as described on CNN!
Quote:Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. But in order to oppress a class, certain conditions must be assured to it under which it can, at least, continue its slavish existence. The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of the feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois. The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.
Yup, a stunningly accurate description of the MSM, doing everything it can to undermine the bourgeoisie — from which it derives its very success!
Do yourself a favor, cj, and read the goddam tract with an open mind and some historical perspective. Maybe you'll be able to see how different Marx's vision is from anything that developed in China or the Soviet Union. Just yelling "Commie!" because you're threatened by someone's political beliefs is the height of ignorance. The networks
do not use the Communist Manifesto.