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Karl Marx praises
America's capitalist system
An open letter to the Inkwell from Karl Marx
Dear Armstrong Atlantic State University,
As I look down on earth
from my heavenly station I must confess that I simply love America's capitalist system.
The system has the ability to solve world history's ongoing class struggles.
Before the American capitalist system, all history consisted of class struggles
that resulted in either the common ruin of the contending classes or a violent revolution.
At the start of the Capitalist era I feared that, despite the immense benefits of
Capitalism, another war would need to be waged. The new war would be between to
owners of the means of production and the workers. But, that war has not happened in
America. Instead, it is no the workers who increasingly own the means of production
and its benefits, tanks to America's system of stock ownership. AS I write this in
the year 2000 over 50 million Americans are part owners of the entire corporate world in
America.
Once the proletariat and bourgeoisie had equal access to ownership of
the means of protection the class distinction began to end. One party in America,
the Republicans, no longer even bother to openly appeal to the vestiges of class hatred,
something needed for any revolution to occur. While the other party, the Democrats,
continue to support class warfare by openly appealing to the "poor" and the
so-called "middle class" in its struggle against the "rich." these
class terms now gather no great revolutionary support. Indeed, it now seems that
close to all Americans think they can become rich. In addition, even the Democratic
party is unable to define the delineation between these rich, middle and poor classes.
With the merging of the classes, and the joint ownership of the means of
production, both the bourgeoisie and proletariat have common interest in maintaining and
increasing production. With the advent of improved communications in the world the
epidemics of over production are easily curtailed. Today, American businesses
consider it a crisis if, during any three month period, they have excess production
merchandise. The American economy has spread throughout the globe, bringing jobs and
labor easing tools to all enlightened nations. It saddens me that the nations under
communism, who claim to be my disciples, are the very ones who have prevented the
proletariat from owning the means of production. Instead, in the name of the
people, these countries have made politicians and political appointees the practical
owners of the means of production.
I must admit I was wrong. In our Communist Manifesto, Engles and I
felt that the bourgeois would need to maintain their positions as sole owners of the means
of production by the enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces, the conquest of
new markets and the more thorough exploitation of free ones. Instead, for many
reasons, the bourgeois have chosen to give up their positions as the sole owners of
production. It has becomes difficult for corporations in America to exploit their
own owners.
Source Material: A
History of World Societies, Fifth Edition, Volume II, Since 1500 by McKay, Hill, Buckler,
Ebrey
Source Material: Worlds of History, A
Comparative Reader, Volume Two: Since 1400 by Kevin Reilly
Source Material: Primis, Political Science, Ethical Theory of
Government, Discourses (ISBN: 0-390-97507-9) published for Skidmore-Hess
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