In recent months demonstrations against government have been popping up world wide. From Syria to Libya, New York to New Jersey, the public is actively expressing its disgust toward its leaders who not only enforce outdated laws, policies and procedures but control the purse strings too. What the public at large are communicating is more than a show of lawlessness or anarchy, collectively from the East side of the world to the West, North and South we are saying we are tired of working long days while still earning the wages we were making five years ago at the same time Chief Executive Officers, Presidents, Vice Presidents and the Chairmen of the Board who do nothing more than move money around and play golf all day give themselves raises every six months. We are sick to our empty stomachs of seeing Politicians, Bankers, Actors/Actresses and people famous for doing nothing traipse around flashing their wealth and status while the 99% of the population continue to struggle trying to put food on the table and clothes on our backs. Karl Marx has been dead and buried since the late 1800s and yet his theories regarding our capitalistic society still ring true today. As long as the “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie” remains in its current state of the rich getting richer while the poor get destructively desperate there is no other course of action available other than taking to the streets in protest. History is clearly repeating itself but the question is what will we learn this time?
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." (Karl Marx)
- "The proletarians of the world have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of all countries: Unite!" (Karl Marx, 1818)
- “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”(Karl Marx, 1818)
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