Current state of the International Proletarian Revolution

[Vythica]

How long must we suffer under the yoke of the Capitalist? Everyday I go to work and I feel the sting of the Capitalist's whip on my back and the burden of his chains around my feet. Why do we put up with this? The only purpose the Capitalist serves is to make profit on my labour. This exploitation is an insult to our human dignity. Consider this; CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) posted 600 million dollar (CAD) profit for the fourth quarter of 2009 (this is just an example of many, I'm sure upon your own research you can find other more egregious examples). That profit goes to line the already golden coffers of multi-millionaires. Where is the justice in that? Am I not worth, as a being, the same as the Capitalist? Is my hard toil not worth more than a rich man's laziness? The only solution to these and other injustices and indignities is the Revolutionary establishment of a dictatorship of The People. But why isn't this happening? The current monopoly state of Capitalism in the West is ripe for a Proletarian Revolution. Yet it doesn't come.
The Capitalist keeps the worker down with the hope, the promise of one day becoming part of the "ruling" class. A "have" instead of a "have not". This will never happen. It is a deceitful and despicable lie, perpetrated by despicable and deceitful people. They keep us down with the help (conscious or unconscious) of the "middle class"; people who are not rich, but who are also not paupers. These people are cowards. They capitulate to the Capitalist, they bow to the Capitalist, all the while feeding on the scraps the Capitalist feels fit throw them in order to sustain their capitulation. It's these people we must reach out to and imbue with the cause of the worker. But it's not easy to convince the "middle class" that our struggle is righteous. They don't have much to lose, but it's enough to keep them at the end of the Capitalist's leash.
The worker on the other hand has nothing to lose but everything to gain. Independence, liberty, dignity, and proper social, political, and financial compensation for our hard labour.
I don't know about you, but I'm sick of working for the gain of the Capitalist, and whether you work for a large corporation or a small business, I assure you, the Capitalist is benefiting from your toil. Much more so than you do.
It's time this generation took a stand for liberty. It's time this generation took a stand for dignity for not only himself but his fellow man. It's time this generation stopped feeding into the lies sold to us by Capitalists and the politicians on the payroll of the Capitalists.

I urge each of you to seek out your local Socialist/Communist/Marxist-Leninist parties, labour unions and other pro-democratic, social justice organizations and get involved.

[Henri_Freundlich]

C.S. Lewis - A Preface to Paradise Lost:

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please. In all ages, no doubt, nurture and instruction have, in some sense, attempted to exercise this power. But the situation to which we must look forward will be novel in two respects. In the first place, the power will be enormously increased. Hitherto the plans of educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted and indeed, when we read them — how Plato would have every infant ‘a bastard nursed in a bureau’, and Elyot would have the boy see no men before the age of seven and, after that, no women, and how Locke wants children to have leaky shoes and no turn for poetry — we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.(pp. 59-60)

I am not thinking here solely, perhaps not even chiefly, of those who are our public enemies at the moment [1944]. The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than Fascists. The methods may (at first) differ in brutality. But many a mild-eyed scientist in pince-nez, many a popular dramatist, many an amateur philosopher in our midst, means in the long run just the same as the Nazi rules of Germany. Traditional values are to be ‘debunked’ and mankind to be cut out into some fresh shape at the will (which must, by hypothesis, be an arbitrary will) of some few lucky people in one lucky generation which has learned how to do it. The belief that we can invent ‘ideologies’ at pleasure, and the consequent treatment of mankind as mere hyle [Greek: matter, clay], specimens, preparations, begins to affect our very language. Once we killed bad men; now we liquidate unsocial elements. Virtue has become integration, and diligence dynamism, and boys likely to be worthy of a commission are ‘potential officer material’. Most wonderful of all, the virtues of thrift and temperance, and even of ordinary intelligences, are sales-resistance. (p. 74)

[Henri_Freundlich]

Favouritism is everywhere, Vyth. A change of Government won't change that.

Rather, people need to be well-informed of such activities, with dodgy individuals, corporations, organisations and Governments being held accountable of their activities.

[Vythica]

Originally Posted by Henri_Freundlich

A change of Government won't change that.

I'm not talking about a change of Government. I'm talking about the abolition of classes and therefore class distinctions and the foundation of a new society. You're right a simple change of Government won't achieve what I seek.

[backe]

Talk is cheap, and real change is driven by those that don't.

[Godot]

Ever watch "Capitalism: A Love Story" by Micheal Moore?
a very interesting documentry

[Vythica]

I agree (which is the purpose of trying to motivate people to act). I also don't drive.

[Henri_Freundlich]

More food for thought:

These latter-day Leninists are about seizing the telegraph station of social media and propagandizing the liberation of private property for the collective -- and the revolutionary acts they commit are benefitting them first and foremost, but it's not at all certain they will benefit anyone else, and already, their ideology is responsible for destruction of intellectual property, not enhancement of it.

-- Quoting Prokofy Neva: Declaring War on Cory Doctorow

Edit: Prokofy is a registered Democrat in Real Life.

[Vythica]

We could exchange quotes all day or we could have a discussion. V.I. Lenin was quick to point out that different countries develop the Revolution at different times and to different extents, and as such one is not necessarily a blueprint for the other. He mentioned this many times in his writing. Being that one Revolution is not indicative of another, whatever misdeeds done in one country do not by necessity indicative of the misdeeds or good deeds to be done by another country's Revolution.

Another shot over the bow;

"We know that help from you will probably not come soon, comrade American workers, for the revolution is developing in different countries in different forms and at different tempos (and it cannot be otherwise)."

--V.I. Lenin
Letter to American Workers
August 20, 1918

[Arafails]

I do so wish a Proletarian uprising could actually work, but evidence shows that the nature of man makes it cause more harm than good.

Both the left boot and the right boot have a tendency, once placed on the foot, to sink into the mud.