[lbo-talk] UK MOD envisions middle-class-led Marxist revival

[Carl Remick]

[Kudos to Lenin's Tomb for spotlighting a UK Ministry of Defence paper 
projecting what the world might look like in 30 years based on current 
trends.  One fascinating conclusion is that the global middle classes could 
well become proletarianized and radicalized and spearhead a global revival 
of Marxism.  If only!  Excerpt follows:]

Strategic Trends: 2007-2036

Strategic Trends is an independent view of the future produced by the 
Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC), a Directorate General 
within the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD). It is a source document for the 
development of UK Defence Policy. ...

The Middle Class Proletariat

The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role 
envisaged for the
proletariat by Marx. The globalization of labour markets and reducing levels 
of national
welfare provision and employment could reduce peoples’ attachment to 
particular states.
The growing gap between themselves and a small number of highly visible 
super-rich
individuals might fuel disillusion with meritocracy, while the growing urban 
under-classes
are likely to pose an increasing threat to social order and stability, as 
the burden of
acquired debt and the failure of pension provision begins to bite. Faced by 
these twin
challenges, the world’s middle-classes might unite, using access to 
knowledge, resources
and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest. ...

<http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5CB29DC4-9B4A-4DFD-B363-3282BE255CE7/0/strat_trends_23jan07.pdf>

<http://www.leninology.blogspot.com/>

Carl

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