Thank You Very Much for your post, YMixYMix wrote:Marx told you people that the middle class is dangerous, but did you listen? No, you didn't!monster_gardener wrote:The gang’s members were mostly radicalised young members of West Germany’s prosperous post-war middle class.
Dangerous to the Marxist vision of a proletarian dictatorship...........Marx told you people that the middle class is dangerous
Sure........
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kun-be ... /05/04.htm“The internal enemy” of the proletarian Russian Revolution is constituted first and foremost by the lower middle classes. The expropriation of the expropriators being carried out at present does not represent the most serious obstacle in the path of proletarian dictatorship. In the path of the expropriation of capital the obstacles are of a purely objective nature. The small group of large capitalists has not the masses on its side, and therefore speedily becomes powerless in face of the armed proletariat.* The lower middle classes of society, on the other hand, represent a considerable section of the population, especially in Russia — to say nothing of the propertied section of the peasantry. To reckon with the wishes of these lower middle classes would mean the halting half-way of the work of the Revolution: it would mean an end of the aspirations towards the destruction of capitalism.
Exactly because the lower middle-class mass is numerically large, it has retained an influence over the working-class movement.
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*But apparently not so much against the lower middle class...........
Especially if they too are armed...........
Sounds like a 2nd Amendment empowered lower middle class could be a good idea for stymieing nastiness like the Russian Revolution....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Am ... nstitutionA well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
And FWIW........
Marx could well have been talking about himself........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_MarxBorn into a wealthy middle-class family in Trier in the Prussian Rhineland, Marx studied at the universities of Bonn and Berlin where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians.
And given the bloody history of Marxist Communism in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia and elsewhere..............
I'd say that Marx/Marxism was/is More than Middling Dangerous.........