I have started to do my part to spread the prophetic, revolutionary word of the Lord against the rich and powerful by the only means thus far that are at my disposal-Youtube and blog comments. Yes I know, rather pathetic..but it's a beginning, no ?
As I debate a motley crowd of libertarians, paleo-conservatives, and the odd Keynesian, the major stumbling block that comes up,as can be expected is the nature of wage labor. It is difficult to argue effectively what is to me the obvious Marxist analysis, that capitalist profit by the appropriation of the unpaid labor time of the worker, when that relationship has been so naturalized by it's long establishment as feature of the economic status quo. People have forgotten there even existed a world that pre-dates the wage labor. And the fact that this system has brought obvious increases in lifestyle, at least among the labor aristocracy of the First World (to use prehaps crudely the Leninist term for the phenomena). As long as we can play with our computers, cars, and i phones on borrowed money, we do not give a damm that we are robbed of any real economic and political power. "Our mastas, they soo good to us, we don't ever wannna to run away"....this is the behavior of slaves not free people, despite all the zombie talk of "liberty" and "free choice" these blind captives repeat over and over again....One feels nostalgic for men like Rousseau, and the 18th century in general, when liberty was a battle cry against the society of commerce, when it retained serve, classical spirit of disdain for servitude to luxury consumption. But then again, that was an era of actual revolutions as well....often I fell that we are like dwarfish descended of giants, who laugh and play and often smile to recall that are fathers were so serious.
