For those who were
Marxist in 1970/80s, the collapse of the Soviet Union virtually meant the
beginning of the extinction for that mode of analysis. Even though China, North
Korea, Cuba and a few socialists system still existed but they could not signpost
the ideological divide between East and West. However, today the class struggle
that Karl Marx predicted is gradually resonating in
national politics across the globe.
In our
present world, class and classism has different connotation, although analogous
to Marx’s definition. "Classism
is the systemic assignment of characteristics of worth based on social class.
It includes individual attitudes and behaviors; systems of policies and
practices set up to benefit the upper classes at the expense of the lower
classes, resulting in drastic income and wealth inequality; and the rationale
and the culture that perpetuates these systems and unequal valuing.
Classism is differential treatment based on social class or perceived
social class. Classism is the systemic oppression and subjugation of the
subordinated groups, that is, people without endowed or acquired economic
power, social influence or privilege – by the dominant groups, that is, those
who have access to control of the necessary resources by which other people
make their living. Classism is the systemic oppression of subordinated class
groups to advantage and strengthen the dominant class groups. Classism is held
in place by a system of beliefs and cultural attitudes that ranks people
according to economic status, family lineage, job status, level of education
and so on.
The ruling class and their minions in the media, government and
social control apparatus are extremely distressed and apoplectic about the rise
of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders on the political scene. These two are
exposing the endemic graft, corruption and inequality in the American system
despite the 1%'s best efforts to mock and marginalize them, discount them and
use dirty tricks to get them out of their respective races for their party's
nomination. Thus far they have not been able to dissuade the rabble (that's
what they call common folks) from joining the growing resistance against the
status quo.
Now the ruling oligarchs are getting really desperate, they sense
a genuine uneasiness and angst amongst the masses and they fear they will not
be able to keep the common folks in check much longer. However, the ruling oligarchs
will do anything in their power using their vast resources to derail or co-opt
any grass roots opposition to the political duopoly of the Democrat and
Republican con game.
In the past anyone who dared to openly speak about class warfare
was demonized and could eventually be eliminated. Remember how Obama bum rushed
the Occupy Wall Street movement all over the country in 2012? North Carolina
Senator John Edwards was run out of the 2008 presidential race because he was
talking about income inequality and classism. The ruling class used their
corporate media to expose his extramarital affair to turn public opinion
against him. They did the same thing to Elliot Spitzer the former New York
Governor when he started talking about the Wall Street shenanigans and going
after the big wigs. They used the fact he was frequenting a high class brothel
to turn public opinion against him and force him to resign.
Going back further the ruling class murdered Robert Kennedy and
had former Alabama Governor George Wallace shot to get them out of the 1968
presidential race because they were challenging the establishment's agenda.
Earlier they murdered Martin Luther King Jr. because he was talking about income
and wealth inequality defying the system, calling for an end to the war in
Southeast Asia, radical changes at home and income redistribution! The ruling
class in America is psychopathic, ruthless, and cold blooded. They think
nothing of assassinating people to maintain the status quo and keep their power
and control in check.
The Republican Party a white bread political party known for its
exclusion, snobbishness and racism has the audacity to vilify Donald Trump and
call him xenophobic and racist. That's like the kettle calling the pot black!
The Republicans are desperate to stop Donald Trump who they regard
as an outsider even though he is part of the 1% crowd. Trump uses his own
money so he is neutralizing their rules, he can't be bribed or bought off and
his life is an open book so they can't white-mail him with anything. The ruling
class is so desperate. They have
enlisted their good ol boy buddy George Soros to manipulate MoveOn.org, Black
Lives Matter, two of the organizations he directly funds and some other
dissidents he pays to disrupt Trump's campaign rallies so the media can blame
Trump for the ruckus! For added measure they are now sending threatening
letters to his sister who is a Federal appellate judge and his daughter. That
is some low life stuff.
The rabble is waking up to the disdain and contempt the super-rich
and their governmental pawns hold for them. The Sanders and Trump candidacies
are feeding on the angst and anger of the people. Sanders is capitalizing on
the idealism of young people, mostly college students who don't trust the
system, who find themselves in humongous debt, unable to find good jobs and
many are living at home with their parents, because they can't afford to
venture out on their own.
Both Sanders and Trump are pointing fingers at the system, at the
status quo and are calling for the very thing the ruling elites fear most, real
change.
What is happening in the United States indicates that in our world
today, politics requires a masterful combination of new media, door-to-door and
community grass roots campaigning with a clever tactical use of traditional TV
advertising.
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