Nikov, why do you feel class warfare was unjustified at the time.
Trans, there is no need of communism for a free education.
On the topic of class warfare right now, and why the situation changed.
At the time, the proletarian worked to supply riches to the wealthy. Their own consumption was low, and consisted only of product of basic necessities. They couldn't afford any education, lest they where some genius who could get under the protection of some teacher that manage to get some sort of grant. Social laws where their only chance, and massive action/protest, their only tool.
The Upper class, wanted to keep them low, because their consumption was negligible, and they were only cheap tools.
The different classes were pretty much hereditary. They were exception, but few of them, and not exactly easy, or devoid from risk (as in being killed). Class warfare was not an overstatement. If you were a syndicalist, most of the wealthy (for instance this true American hero, still given as example although he was a complete bastard in this regard, Henry Ford), wanted you dead.
If you were going on strike, the army could be called, and they have fired in the crowd a few time (collusion of the wealthy and the government).
Now, in Europe, everyone use entertainment, if only by the means of the television. Worker's consumption is the motor of the economy, and education is cheap (not speaking of England but hat's another problem. A modern problem, with roots in th lower classes.) The true working class is in china, Thailand, Taiwan, but they are pressured by the company that supply us with goods.
Now, the socialist fight for higher wage in Europe, were wage are already high. They want riches for the riches.
But there is poeple richer than even us... and that's were class warfare fail.
1800's class: Wealthy, clergy, government, all working together to pressure the laboring class, and profiting from their work, while doing few themselves. The middle class, being the arm of the higher class, are still enemy of the poeple (communists usually overlooked that without them, the country would crumble form sheer lack of intellect.).
2000's "class". Third world, emergents countries, wealthy countries. All forming a weird, entangled web with poor, average, wealthy, and incredibly wealthy in each kind of countries, pushed by ethics, economy, beliefs...
Class warfare is a simple model, who cannot withstand such complexity. The poor from rich country benefits from pressuring the poor from emergent countries. The wealthy from emergent countries predate the poor and the wealthy from rich countries alike...
So, Trans, you're using 1800's strategy in a 2000's world war. Your thinking system is obsolete, and weight those of us that try to protect the interest of the poeple in today's world.
Ayn Rand isn't a scientific. I laugh when she pretend to promote "realism" and "rationality" with such a poor scientific, logic and mathematical culture. Her whole argumentation is flawed, pretending to oppose individual and common good, while pretending that individual good will somehow profit to everyone (since you know, in her perfect world, everybody is selfish).
At the end, what I hate in all these "thinker", is that they ponder endlessly "ethical" and "philosophical" argument, instead of searching for a working system.
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