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== Friday, Sept 27: Opium for the Masses (or nothing new under the sun?) == | |||
Marx was an idiot. | |||
He was troubled, ambitious, and fearful. Humans don't like change, and like the infamous Luddites, who wrote threatening letters to factory owners signed "Ned Ludd" for a mythical weaver, he couldn't stand for the rapid, albeit bewildering changes in English society of the early- mid-19th century. | |||
Marx, however, unlike the Luddites, left the street protests and raids on mills to others, who only went on to kill upwards 100 million people in his name. (And unlike the real Ned Ludd, who as kid went into a fit of anger at being accused of idleness and smashed his knitting frames (or, another story had it, smashed his needles to bits after his father told him to "square his needles"; see [[wikipedia:Ned_Ludd|Ned Ludd - Wikipedia]]), Marx just wrote radical tracts, underwritten by the mill owner, Fredrich Engels. (The Luddite movement had been crushed before the German Engels, a whoremonger, btw, who inherited all his money, took over a mill in Manchester.) | |||
Engels and Marx correctly worried, as did Dickens, who also profited form it, the conditions of the working class in industrial England. Dickens, though, sold his books to the growing middle class (growing from those rising in income, not the other way around) who turned the industrial revolution into cottages, professions, education, and improved living conditions. The short of it is such: Marx, Engels and their later followers all thought -- hoped -- the communist revolution would occur in industrialized Britain or France, which of course, would have none of it, as factory workers were making money and the rising middle class (the dreaded "bourgeoisie") was having a time of it all. Those revolutions did occur, but only in nations that, instead, lacked a vibrant, healthy middle class -- Russia, China, etc. | |||
== Friday, Sept 20: Typology and Salvation History == | == Friday, Sept 20: Typology and Salvation History == | ||