Reply #9: Fuck Wealth!! And this is only part of why Marxism has died:

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"We have successfully constructed an economic system that necessitates poverty. It must exist in order to maintain the status quo"

What hogwash that? I've seen the entrails of Marxism you had your choices brown or black shoes. You had your choices grey or blue tunic. You had your choices come by Mon-Wed-Thurs for prime cuts of Black Forest Ham by appointment only mit der commissar Sat get off it - there's a reason why Little Nikkita *&* Stalingrad are already here, it's easier to hide amongst the loft and the poetry

The problem with this shit is not 'capitalism' per se so much as the entirety of it, even the oligarchs of woebegone Marxism; has been predicted upon Wall Street and an investor class that sits on it's fucking, effete, all-to-fat-ass on a couch somewhere watching colored graphs go up & down ala Bloomberg & Fox-bid'ness-news and even though *that* is not capitalism not yet...

...That still does not preclude you & me, not yet, from baking a shrieking apple pie, schlepping it off to the fair and selling (or bartering) it for whatever the market will bear so this shit is fucking serious so you better have a better recipe than this one cause *our* future is resting on top of what appears to be a dead shark and tons of piteous woe for what has already been culled from the pride by way of insufficiency and the tainted ore of backyard Chinas that think all 'the people' need do is smelt their own steel home-skillet-style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNaUHA2KrY

The 'problem' is humanity, the problem is us, the problem is Karl Marx *and* Adam Smith *and* Gandhi cause the allure of false hope is more powerful than if god him/herself suggested the very same; and 'the invisible hand' is only *invisible* to the blind...yeah sure why not,

We aren't here to piffle the blood of Nicky's kids either yes?


It's not the minimum wage, certainly not a living wage but there is an 'avg' wage that perpetuates the semblance of democracy and it works out to round little under $9 an hour - worldwide avg - that's Halliburton making buckets of duckets for fucking shit up and Laotian women shelling clams in the forest making *shit wages* 2-bits 4-bits a-fucking-day yanked into slavery falling exhausted into their machinery just to stock Trader Joe's et al it is all figured in believe it = too high a wage and the oligarchs get pissed cause their precious little doe-eyed princesses are less likely to get that special little blood diamond tennis bracelet on Rodeo Dr; too small a wage and the people bring "unscheduled" chaos into the market place in the forms of pitch forks and lit torches with their talk of cannabis & revolution, so...

You, we, us, we all get maybe a new pair of Levi's, some band-aids, a dinner out, some high-speed broadband, and the gas to get us where we think they need us and the deal is done, here...

Go buy some wine from Napa Valley, drink it; go'head, but then fill the bottle with gasoline (you can go ethanol here that is still your choice), stuff a strip of an unappreciated t-shirt into the bottle, light it the toss it through an important window wherever...

When we see the flames we will know that it is in fact the case: revolution will not be televised