This scene from the 1987 film Wall Street captures perfectly the attitude of the oligarchy towards the rest of us. It is their insatiable greed that will be their downfall.
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1 comment
Jeff Hess
March 27, 2011 at 3:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Shalom Mano,
Over the weekend I took some time to re-read “The Communist Manifesto” and was struck again by how right and how wrong Karl Marx was.
More than a century and a half later, the problems predicted by Marx continue to roll out and labor continues to be oppressed.
Marx noted that subsequent waves of capitalists would destroy their predecessors — and that has happened in the past and continues to happen in the present, but I don’t see predicted triumph of labor happening in any future I can see.
Nothing short of a total global collapse, in my opinion, will present such an opportunity.
B’shalom,
Jeff