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People of the world Unite
07/05/2007 9:00 pm
“The Communist Manifesto is arguably one of the greatest works of non-fiction of the nineteenth century along with Charles Darwin Origin of Species. Wrote the “Los Angels Times”. The Communist Manifesto has been stated to be one of the most important political documents in history. However, if this is the case, were Marx and Engels right in their ideologies and beliefs? Or is it that there views or concepts have no relevance in the world we live in today. Could the Communist Manifesto be as relevant today as when it was written in 1848. Together Marx and Engels have gotten to watch capitalism from its earliest stages and its beginnings, to see capitalisms essential characteristics and core dynamics take root in society. They had the very uncanny predictions that capitalism would split society into two social classes and about the many dynamitic changes it would leave in its wake. They had also said that capitalism would cause an epidemic in the world that was unbeknownst until this time. It has to be mentioned though, just because Marx and Engels said that society would be split into these two classes it didn’t mean that there wasn’t going to be other classes existing within the two. Just that this was in the end going to be the largest social cleavage. The splitting of society into these cleavages would then lead to the bourgeois (the owners and controllers of the means of production) and the proletarian (the working class) to be exploited by the bourgeois. Many argue though that capitalism has changed since Marx’s day and his criticisms are no longer relevant. That the working class is disappearing, also claiming that the living standards have improved. To a certain extent this is very much true, but does not mean that capitalism has come past the exploitations of the working class. It can be said that there have been improvements in many countries around the globe, yet there are still so many poor and 3rd world countries that don’t share in the same basic rights as citizens in the developed countries. These are all things that are still very much relevant in our society today. Although there is the odd rhetorical exaggeration, or even an odd prediction that has gone wrong in the Communist Manifesto, much of what Marx and Engels wrote is still relevant today and some of the ideas can still be used to help better society. They got to see capitalism take root around the world and see the changes it began to make.
For this precise reason that Marx and Engels where alive at the time when what is now known as modern capitalism was still in its infancy, they were both able to analyze the system in such way that seizes the essential characteristics and core dynamics of capitalism. When the manifesto was written, capitalism was established in a relatively few places. Western Europe and North America being the important ones in this case. Marx and Engels envisioned that capitalism would eventually grow to become a global system. The need of a constantly expanding market for its product chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. I19/ pg44 What they are trying to say here is that in the search of new markets, cheap labor and the constant need of more natural resources drive capitalism around the globe. This is one of the fist statements referring to what we now call “globalization”. The statement in the manifesto mentioned that the bourgeoisies has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. I20/44.pg. The more that this trends carries on, the less differences are found between the working class in different nations. Due to this wide spread of all market resources and the relative ease at which natural resources could be exploited, production of goods had reached new levels. Marx foresaw this eventually leading to vast problems in capitalist society.
What they had predicted when this happened in the manifesto was that in these crises a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crisis there breaks out an epidemic that in all earlier epochs would have seemed an absurdity-the epidemic of overproduction. I27/pg47-48. The thought that they are trying to put across is that in pre-capitalist society crisis resulted in the shortage of the vitally important goods. Where as under capitalism for the first time the typical result will be of producing too much of those vital goods. This in the end will cause millions to lose their jobs and are then placed into poverty, even though there is still a demand for those vital goods to be continuously produced. For the first time in history there will be enough of the valuable goods for everyone to survive, but yet many people will go with out these vital goods. Instead what happens these valuable resources are wasted or destroyed until it eventually becomes profitable for the company to invest in new production again. This can only lead to more and ever more sever crisis to happen again and again in the future. Thus cementing the relation of the two social classes that Marx and Engels stated that society would split itself into two.
To Marx and Engels through all of history there were always class struggles. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. I1/pg39. In the manifesto it is stated that capitalist society was going to be broken down into two classes, the bourgeoisie, and the proletariat. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: bourgeoisie and proletariat. I5/pg40. The dividing of these two classes where going to be different then any other cleavage in history. All previous historical movement were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority. I49/pg.55. This is not to say that all classes apart from the bourgeoisie and the proletariat will vanish they will still remain but what communism is trying to accomplish is equality. They do not speak of a feminist movement as we know it but do touch on the subject of equality for women. That the real point aimed at is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production. I47/pg66. Where is saying that Communist want to do away with the idea of women being property. Their main objective is to have and maintain a full equality for both women and men. The idea that Karl Marx was trying to get at though, yes there maybe other smaller classes but capitalism would place the majority on the one side with the proletarian and the minority with the bourgeois, and that the bourgeois would then exploit the proletarian with the aims of exploiting this working class. There are many though that argue that capitalism has gone past this point of exploitation of the working class.
It is argued that capitalism has changed since Marx’s day and his criticisms are no longer relevant. That the working class is slowly disappearing from the equation they claim that the living standards have improved. It is very true that standards of living have been improved upon with the coming of capitalism. These improvements are largely around the large and wealthy nations. While the 3rd world countries are still trying to developing their living standards. Marx shows a starting point into this. The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. But in the expansion of capitalism and in the search of new markets and more natural resources, that it has found other citizens in which it can exploit. Today’s so called “Free Trade” agreements open up poor and 3rd world countries to imports and investment from larger more powerful economies, giving these large multinational corporations access to cheap labor. Even in the Capitalist society the wealth is not evenly distributed. One of Marx’s first though on the subject was that, In order to oppress a class, certain conditions must be assured to it under which it can, at least, continue it’s slavish existence.” I52/pg.56. The vast majority of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, while the vast majority are meeting the minimum started at which they need to survive it is true that wage labor has been raised in all of the developed countries. The average price of wage labor is the minimum wage, i.e., that quantum of the means of subsistence, which is absolutely requisite to keep the laborer in bare existence as a laborer. What, therefore, the wage laborer appropriates by means of his labor merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence. I22/pg61. In a capitalist society the proletariat don’t actually own the raw material in which they can produce this capital, but instead rely on their ability to work. In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed-a class of laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who work only so long as their labor increases capital. I30/pg49. This saying that the majority of the world’s population will have to sell themselves as a commodity. This leaves the working class in a constant state of instability. Showing that even in the developed countries there is still very much the exploitation of the bourgeois over the proletarian, making many of the ideas in the Communist Manifesto still relevant to society today.
There are many arguments against what Marx and Engles had to say. They did make the point though that those in control write history. As it stands today we are still very much a capitalist society. Not with standing that Marx did make the occasional mistake or exaggeration within the manifesto. These errors are by no means devaluing the concepts that are still very much valid in today’s society. In order to gain the true important nature of this document one must remember the period of time in which it was written. Along with focusing on the critical concept behind the Communist Manifesto, this concept or ideology was to abolish the exploitation of the bourgeois over the proletarians. To protect the interests of the working class and bring about equality regardless of nationality. The key point we should be looking for is the spreading of equality and protection of interests to all people around the globe. Regardless of whether Marx and Engles could have ever foreseen the influence of interest groups and other social movements. This does not mean the key concept that all people should be equal regardless of nationality can’t be built upon and expanded in today’s society. This should be to abolish all forms of oppression and the equality of everyone regardless of all nationality, colour, race, and sexual orientation. In the end we are all the same. Like Marx said at the end of the manifesto. “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have the world to win.”pg89. But it no longer has to just encompass that one thing. It’s the ideology behind what is said. We need to take the ideas that can still much better society today, while leaving behind the ideas or the mistakes with in the book. The Manifesto is end off with “WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES UNITE!” We should take this and expand upon it and make it “PEOPLE OF THE WORLD UNITE!”
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CHILLIN'
03/01/2007 6:00 pm
I WAS JUST ON HERE , Y'KNOW, JUST NOTHING TO DO AND CHILLIN'. I WISH THERE WAS SOMEWHERE I COULD GO OR JUST SOMEONE TO TALK TO RIGHT ABOUT NOW AND THE FACT THERE IS A WINTER STORM HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS ISN'T EXACTLY HELPING , EITHER.LOL.BUT IT'S COOL, THOUGH. I'LL BE HERE, HOPEFULLY , PATIENTLY WAITING....FOR SOMEBODY TO HIT ME UP.LATER.
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NEW GUY ON THE BLOCK
02/25/2007 12:00 pm
WELL...I'LL JUST START BY SAYING THAT I AM NEW TO THIS , I JUST HEARD ABOUT IT WHILE CRUISING BLACK PLANET AND SOMETHING INSIDE MY HEAD SAID, "CHECK IT OUT", SO I DID, I DECIDED TO JOIN UP AND I HOPE I CAN MEET UP WITH SOME COOL , FUN PEOPLE.
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poem no.4
02/20/2007 3:00 pm
I hooked you with a single stare
It was over before it began
Like fallen pray you were lying there
Holding death within your hand
You had a void and I touched you there
With the ease I rubbed my hand
There was a devil in your despair
A devil at my command
What I brought, you were unaware
That it was the best you had to give
But all you took from our affair
Are the fears you must relive
But don't forget in your prayers
That all I did was make you bare
And to place the blame for your scare
It's in the mirror you must stare
Because I can not bring to open air
What already isn't there
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poem no.3
02/20/2007 3:00 pm
I remember how it began
with tempers flaring and heartache nearing
We were saying words never meant to be said
and now we're hurting one another just because
we were too weak to face ourselves
We cry because we love
We cry because we care
But we forget that in this world
everything has a price
and that even teardrops aren't free
I held your head in my arms
and I tried to caress the pain away
But no matter how much I wiped your eyes
or took back the words I said
I couldn't stop you from hurting
and as pain creates pain
and suffering creates suffering
It becomes clear that we live in a world
where everything has a price
and even teardrops aren't free
As I'm driving off into the distance
I can see you standing there waving
with the tears still fresh on your face
I try to remember every word we said
and I try to understand the price I'm paying
as I speed into the darkness of uncertainty
leaving pieces of myself behind
pieces that are mere tokens demanded by a world
where everything has a price
and even teardrops aren't free
Now we're miles apart my love
and I haven't seen your face in years
but your pale blue eyes still haunt me
every night as I drift off to sleep
I hear you've moved on with your life
and that you've found another lover
one that only makes you smile
But I'm still crying my love
I'm still caressing the pain
and I'm still paying the toll claimed by this world
where everything has a price
and even teardrops aren't free
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poem no.2
02/20/2007 3:00 pm
I would have told you I love you
if we hadn't been saying goodbye
With the end always a breath away
it never seemed real to me
like vapors disappearing before my eyes
and even though you're gone today
there's a ghost lurking within my mind
I wanted you to know me
to make sense of a heart gone wrong
I wanted you to need me like I needed you
and to wash away the sins of thought and deed
You were too perfect to grasp
and too wonderful to touch
but now that you're gone
all I have are memories fading
and a ghost walking withing my mind
It's only now that you haunt me
on quiet, lonely nights
when the wind carries your name into my ears
leaving me adrift in a sea of regret and remorse
I can't face who I am
much less what I've become
Just a wounded soul living in an broken heart
walking these empty halls
hoping to catch a glimpse
of the ghost stalking within my mind
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poem no.1
02/20/2007 3:00 pm
I feel my body hit the ground.
People,
Angels,
demons,
whatever they are,
yelling or maybe talking.
I don’t know.
You just don’t say anything.
You only sit there,
not knowing anything that’s happening to me.
My heart skips a beat.
Another.
And Before I know it,
my life falls to pieces.
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Survey Time
01/19/2007 6:00 pm
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Adult fun
01/18/2007 9:00 pm
A sneer, a snarl, a whip that stings, these are a few of my favorite things.
Some new words to an old song....
Take the ribbon from your hair
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Take the ribbon from your hair
Tie my hands behind my back
Take the whip down from the wall
Let me hear that sucker crack
Get some mayonnaise and some rope
Some baby powder and some soap
Get down on your hands and knees
Bark like a dog pretty please
Now don't give me none of your sass
Just show me your cute little ass
It will hurt a little like it should
Then it will feel so damn good
You know the games we like to play
Our work is done, It's the end of the day
It's time for us to relieve some stress
Now go get out of that fucking dress.
LT
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If you don't know the tune just fake it. It's all in fun anyway. If you write to me my street name is "LT" I haven't been called James or Jim by anyone except family in over 25 years. If you want to know what "LT" stands for just ask. I am 6 ft 3 and weigh about 290 pounds,"Give or take 20 lbs.LOL" I'm a bouncer and live in Lexington Ky. I sold my Harley this past summer, so I've been in a bad mood for the last 7 or 8 months. But, a hundred million screaming Chinese don't give a shit so why should you. Right? I Don't drink, or smoke but I like to go to bars. I know It's strange for a man like me," Tattooed covered biker with pierced nipples who is a bouncer" not to smoke or drink but I am unique. I like to hunt and fish,"Bet you didn't see that coming" and spend time with my friends. Just a regular guy. A bit long winded sometimes but nobody's perfect. I hope I hear from some of you, especially if you live near Lex. Your new on line friend....LT
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A loving good time
01/18/2007 8:00 pm
I love to give long, soft, deep, wet kisses.....That last for three days.
More later...
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