Quote:Since Marx wrote his theories around the time of the Mexican War, Democracies have learned to change their culture through non violence, protest and legislation. If violence is the last resort, non violence would be preferred to revolution.
Democracies do not change their culture. The demands of Capital restructure society; the vote is typically an after-the-fact affirmation of changes which are already underway. The Civil Rights Movement was only possible because segments of the bourgeois saw a vast underserved market in the African American population.
Quote:The problem is that non-violence is of limited use against autocratic regimes. They just ignore their people generally. If violent revolution is to be cost effective or necessary, it will occur there.
Capital is not a political regime, but the totality of human life on planet Earth today. It is the structuring force behind all human activity.
Quote:The problems are also not becoming greater. Things were much worse in the Gilded Age.
The problems of the Gilded Age have reproduced themselves in the present day at an enormously magnified rate. The human relations of the Gilded Age, however, did not threaten to drive the whole species into extinction.