_The Manifesto of the Communist Party_ begins with words that indicate that "class" is central to its thesis and that the Manfesto is especially an analysis and definition of class: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Even today, despite a million disguises perpetrated by the bourgeoisie and their sociologists and television producers, the main class struggle is still between proletarians and bourgeoisie, and the Manifesto is fundamentally instructive concerning class in 2001.
Charles Brown
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Isn't the larger point that big money has boxed itself in and has no good alternatives at this point? U.S. capitalists have lived in a dream world from Reagan through Clinton and now face the curse of answered prayers ? They wanted to recreate the laisser-faire paradise of a century ago and were remarkably successful, virtually guaranteeing a resurgence of the manic-depressive, boom-bust intensity of classic capitalism, guaranteeing agony and waste all around.
- Carl Remick