Marx was right

A group of people get together in an office, a store, a factory, and by complicated coordination of work, they transform raw material, say a lumber and glue into a finished product. Let's call it a chair. And then they sell that and get the money. And what do they do with the money? They use a portion of the money to replace the lumber and the glue and the hammers and the nails that go into production that have been used up. They use another part of the revenue they get from selling chairs to pay the workers their salaries. And then there's a residue. It's called the profit. Sometimes it's called a surplus. It's what's left over when you've sold the chair, taken care of replacing tools and equipment used up, and paying the workers. It's what it's the part that goes to the capitalist, the owner, the entrepreneur, the person who's running the business. And of course, the people who are running the business have every interest in minimizing what they spend on tools, equipment, and raw material, and minimizing what they pay their workers, because the more they minimize those things, the more they'll maximize what's left over. Which goes to them. And to whom do these people give the leftover profits? Well, of course, they give it mostly to themselves. That's why we have rich people, not-so-rich people, and poor people. If you're a worker, you get a wage. If you're a capitalist, you get your cut of the profit. If businesses run to maximize profits, that's what the economics profession says it should be. Well then, the system is run to benefit the profit earners, not the others. The profit earners of 3% of our people. That's what the US Census Department says the capitalists are. The other 97% are the ones who are not the objects of how this system works. Capitalism makes the capitalist rich, and we all know, as Marx shows us, the results. The capitalists want capitalism to spread. They want to get more and more workers working to produce what is left over for them. They are expanding. They don't care what the cost of expansion is. That's their income. They squeeze the worker every chance they get. Long hours, lousy pay, no breaks, and minimal conditions. You know the story you're already living in. And then the capitalists will become very wealthy by getting the profits and having their whole system focus on maximum profits for them. They understand they're surrounded by a sea of people who are not rich, and they worry about those people's envy and bitterness. So they don't want to let those people have the vote. They fought against it. The workers finally got it. When America began as an independent country, only a minority was allowed to vote. You should know that workers had to fight everywhere. And once work of had the vote, now the capitalists said they're the majority. They're 97%. We're 3. We'd better control the politics. So they went and took their money and bought the politicians. We know all about that. Marx did too, and talked about it. The system is very unstable because these workers, these capitalists, may or may not invest their money. It's their freedom, free enterprise. But if they don't invest their money, there are no jobs for the people who depend on them. This is a system of unfairness built into it. Injustice is built into it. Marx was right about something else. He said this system is built, and has built into it expansion. These capitalists are always trying to get more workers build their in industry. If they can't get more workers, if they can't sell the output that they're making, they'll charge output, a new kind of output. They’ll come up with something else. They'll pay people to invent new things so they can hire people and get the profit. Because the more profit you have, the safer you are. The more politicians you can buy, the more protection you have. So the system grows, Marx pointed out. It will produce a world, the unified economy, it's done that. Just like Marx said. He was right again. But he said the way it's gonna do it is contradictory. It's gonna blow itself up even as it grows. Well, how did capitalism grow globally? The answer: Colonialism. The early capitalist countries, Britain, Western Europe, North America, Japan became domineering countries that had to carve up Asia, Africa, and Latin America to control them. You know, we're seeing it again now with Mr. Trump's new interest in Latin America, making the folks down there tremble. They've been here before. And Marx said eventually this domination, this capitalist use of Asia, Africa, Latin America, simply for the labor you could get there for the raw materials, using them for the wealth of Europe and North America. That's why the world looks the way it does today. Very rich in a few places, very poor in most of the others. We have an inequality in the world that's like what you had in ancient Egypt. Capitalism hasn't freed us from inequality; it's just reorganized an inequality, which Marx said it would. And then he predicted that eventually the colonial territories would say we're not tolerating this anymore. Marx also said that the working class in a capitalist country wouldn't tolerate it anymore either. One of them would make labor unions and fight the battle that way. That's in the advanced countries. Another would make colonial revolutions. You know what shook Asia, Africa and Latin America? Still does. Bitter, horrible fights between a colonial power trying to control and the people who don't want to be controlled. If you need an example today, try Gaza. See how that fits or not. Marx was right about most of these things. He was right that capitalism would be technologically very dynamic. Every capitalist has to worry that he'll be outcompeted by another one as long as there's competition. So to get a jump on the one who's trying to get a jump on him. They'll compete, and they'll develop new technologies, particularly the kind that's save on workers, replacing a lot of workers with your machine. Of course, that's horrible for the workers. But as Carl Marx kept showing, capitalism is not designed for the workers. That's a mythology. It tries to create in the mind of the worker, fearing that if the worker understands what's actually going on, they will be anti-system, anti capitalist too. Which is indeed what Marxists have tried to cultivate for the last 150 years with considerable success. Marx was right about a lot. This is a system, Marx said, that carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Might the United States that we're living in. Now, be experiencing through the decline of our empire. The decline of our social solidarity as a nation, the bitter divisions racking the country. The fact that the last half dozen wars that the United States has been involved in, the United States has lost. Are these signs of the seeds of your own self-destruction that Marx pointed to? The goods and services we all depend on to lead our lives. The food, the clothing, the shelter, the transportation, education, medical care, all of it. If you look closely at the production, here's how it works. A group of people get together in an office, a store, a factory, and by complicated coordination of work, they transform raw material, say a lumber and glue into a finished product. Let's call it a chair. And then they sell that and get the money. And what do they do with the money? They use a portion of the money to replace the lumber and the glue and the hammers and the nails that go into production that have been used up. They use another part of the revenue they get from selling chairs to pay the workers their salary. And then there's a residue. It's called the profit. Sometimes it's called a surplus. It's what's leftover when you've sold the chair, taken care of replacing tools and equipment used up, taking care of paying the workers. It's what it's the part that goes to the capitalist, the owner, the entrepreneur, the person who's running the business. And of course, the people who are running the business. Have every interest in minimizing what they spend on tools, equipment, and raw material, and minimizing what they pay their workers, because the more they minimize those things, the more they'll maximize what's leftover. Which goes to them. And to whom do these people give the leftover the profits? Well, of course they give it mostly to themselves. That's why we have rich people and not so rich people and poor people. If you're a worker, you get a wage. If you're a capitalist, you get your cut of the profit. If businesses run to maximize profits, and that's what the economics profession says it should be. Well then the system is run to benefit the profit earners, not the others. The profit earners of 3% of our people. That's what the US Census Department says the capitalists are. The other 97% are the ones who are not the objects of how this system works. Capitalism makes the capitalist rich, and we all know, as Marx shows us, the results. The capitalist want capitalism to spread. They want to get more and more workers working to produce what is leftover for them. They are expansion. They don't care what the cost of expansion is. That's their income. They squeeze the worker every chance they get. Long hours, lousy pay, no breaks, minimal condition. You know the story you're already living in. And then the capitalists will become very wealthy by getting the profits and having their whole system focus on maximum profits for them. They understand they're surrounded by a sea of people that are not rich, and they worry about those people's envy and bitterness. So they don't want to let those people have the vote. They fought against it. The workers finally got it. When America begins as an independent countries, only a minority are allowed to vote. You should know that workers had to fight everywhere. And once work of had the vote, now the capitalist said they're the majority. They're 97%. We're 3. We better control the politics. So they went and took their money and bought the politicians. We know all about that. Marx did too, and talked about it. The system is very unstable because these workers, these capitalists, may or may not invest their money. It's their freedom, free enterprise. But if they don't invest their money, there are no jobs for the people who depend on them. This is a system of unfairness built into it. Injustice built into it. Marx was right about something else. He said this system is built, has built into it expansion. These capitalists are always trying to get more workers build their in industry. If they can't get more workers, if they can't sell the output that they're making, they'll charge output, a new kind of output. They’ll come up with something else. They'll pay people to invent new things so they can hire people and get the profit. Because the more profit you have, the safer you are. The more politicians you can buy, the more protection you have. So the system grows, Marx pointed out. It will produce a world, the unified economy, it's done that. Just like Marx said. He was right again. But he said the way it's gonna do it is contradictory. It's gonna blow itself up even as it grows. Well, how did capitalism grow globally? The answer? Colonialism. The early capitalist countries, Britain, Western Europe, North America, Japan became domineering countries who had to carve up Asia, Africa, Latin America to control them. You know, we're seeing it again now with Mr. Trump's new interest in Latin America, making the folks down there tremble. They've been here before. And Marx said eventually this domination, this capitalist use of Asia, Africa, Latin America, simply for the labor you could get there for the raw materials, using them for the wealth of Europe and North America. That's why the world looks the way it does today. Very rich in a few places, very poor in most of the others. We have an inequality in the world that's like what you had in ancient Egypt. Capitalism hasn't freed us from inequality, it's just reorganized an inequality, which Marx said it would. And then he predicted that eventually the colonial territories would say we're not tolerating this anymore. Marx also said the working class in the capitalist country, they wouldn't tolerate it anymore either. One of them would make labor unions and fight the battle that way. That's in the advanced countries. Another would make colonial revolutions. You know what shook Asia, Africa and Latin America? Still does. Bitter, horrible fights between a colonial power trying to control and the people who don't want to be controlled. If you need an example today, try Gaza. See how that fits or not. Marx was right about most of these things. He was right that capitalism would be technologically very dynamic. Every capitalist has to worry that he'll be outcompeted by another one as long as there's competition. So to get a jump on the one who's trying to get a jump on him. They'll compete and they'll develop new technologies, particularly the kind that's save on workers, replace a lot of workers with your machine. Of course, that's horrible for the workers. But as Carl Marx kept showing, capitalism is not designed for the workers. That's a mythology. It tries to create in the mind of the worker, fearing that if the worker understands what's actually going on, they will be anti system, anti capitalist too. Which is indeed what Marxists have tried to cultivate for the last 150 years with considerable success. Marx was right about a lot. This is a system, Marx said, that carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Might the United States that we're living in. Now. Be experiencing through the decline of our empire. The decline of our social solidarity as a nation, the bitter divisions racking the country. The fact that the last half dozen wars that the United States has been involved in, the United States has lost. Are these signs of the seeds of your own self destruction that Marx pointed to?