03-08-2021, 06:45 PM
(03-08-2021, 05:15 PM)Einzige Wrote:(03-08-2021, 05:11 PM)CageyBee Wrote: Is there much difference between the elites who are destroying the US with wars, debt, and tyranny and the Americans who accept the wars, debt, and police state?
To be sure, the Maoist theory of labor aristocracy holds that First World workers are too bought off by the fruits of imperialism to ever revolt. This cuts against the orthodox Marxist theory that revolution must begin in the areas where capitalism is most developed, but so it goes.
If you want real prosperity, you widen the base of skilled labor. These are the people who build the plant and equipment and set up the machinery of production. They erect the infrastructure. Raw labor is too slight in skills to do anything more than to follow instructions of someone who actually has some vision on what to do. Semiskilled workers (the assemblers and the machine-operators) are valuable only when the productive means are already in place. The middle class is too delicate to do work that breaks a sweat.
Society must reward something that it does not intend to lose. Skilled workers get paid well for undergoing tricky apprenticeship programs that aren't for everyone. One can learn to do assembly-line work or to run a simple machine fairly easily. (By the way -- that distinguishes locomotive engineers and heavy-equipment operators from bus drivers, semi-trailer drivers, and cabbies.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.