On Karl Marx's birthday, remember that Marxism's answers are wrong, but its questions are right. Why is there poverty in a world abundant in resources? Marxism's problem is not that it is too radical, but that it is not radical enough.
Marxism professes its own inevitability. But the reality is that we constantly have to fight for economic equality and for international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends. Fight to get them, and then fight to keep them.
In the struggle for economic equality, the leading role belongs to those who suffer most from its absence, namely the working class. And in the struggle for international peace, the leading role belongs to those who suffer most from its absence, namely the working class and the youth.
Marxism professes its own inevitability. But the reality is that we constantly have to fight for economic equality and for international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends. Fight to get them, and then fight to keep them.
In the struggle for economic equality, the leading role belongs to those who suffer most from its absence, namely the working class. And in the struggle for international peace, the leading role belongs to those who suffer most from its absence, namely the working class and the youth.
But equality and peace are universal goods. The ultimate aim is not the triumph of one class over another. Britain already has the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is why it has a Conservative Government.
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