-Caveat Lector-
Marx was a fraud who plagiarized "his" manifesto from
an obscure French socialist Victor Considerant,
according to Tony Sutton. Communism is promoted by the
super-rich to eliminate the middles class. It's
statism, plain and simple. More people have been
slaughtered under Communism than any other ideology.
Gavin.
--- Laura Lee Lanning~Shipton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
>
http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/deskill/deskill2/Marx.html
>
> Impressions on the life and times
> of Karl Marx
>
>
> 1) Karl Marx lived in a time when
> technology was having an
> major impact on an individuals productivity and
> standard of living. What he saw was that
> while machines were
> increasing the standard of living, the workers that
> ran the machines were living at substance
> level. Believing that
> the cause was the territorial aristocratic nobles
> and
> their belief of territory at the expense of
> business, Marx termed
> territory accumulation as capitalistic. He thought
> that a state should be based on business and
> corporations instead
> of territory or individuals and that any threat to
> productivity should be eradicated. Threats to
> business were
> national pride or any other oaths or commitments
> outside of the business.
> 2) Inventions like the printing press, gas
> lamps, electricity,
> indoor plumbing, and machine woven cloth were
> increasing the standard of living and domestic
> productivity while
> making money for the businesses that produced
> them. Marx saw that the biggest market for
> these items would be
> the common worker, yet the common worker
> seldom had the money to buy and considered
> many of the new
> inventions, luxuries. Visualizing a way for
> businesses to keep production up in the face
> of technological
> change that would require a business to buy the
> new machine to stay competitive, Marx hit on a
> plan to have state
> run businesses.
> 3) If a nations priorities were based on
> business instead of
> religion, national pride, or individual rights, Marx
> believed that the average worker would reap
> the benefits of
> technology. Up to this time tithes and taxes to the
> aristocracy and church took up a large portion
> of the workers
> extra money, if that extra money were to go to
> buying the products produced by machines then
> the business could
> buy more machines. He figured that the
> cheaper that product could be made then the
> more would be sold of
> the product. If a workers loyalty were to
> the business instead of family, national pride
> or religion then
> they would support the state business and give their
> best work, which would ultimately result in a
> less expensive
> product that the worker could buy too.
> 4) Marx defined territorial aristocratic
> nobles with landed
> titles as capitalistic. He also saw education as
> making workers dissatisfied with their lot and
> a potential waste
> of time for many since all they would need to
> know is how to use the new items. Except for
> a few skilled
> workers to keep the machines running, education
> that might lead to individual dissatisfaction
> and strikes was
> discouraged. A blind obedience and belief was
> required for a business to keep up in the face
> of changing
> technology.
> To make sure that the state's business was
> business instead of
> territory or anything else that would threaten the
> businesses productivity, any idea of
> individual worth would have
> to be changed. Threats to business were
> national pride or any other oaths or
> commitments outside of the
> business. The worker's first priority would have
> to be making money by working and family or
> any other activities
> outside of the business would only be allowed
> if they did not conflict with the business.
> Any sense of self
> worth, self confidence, or self discipline would be
> decided and defined by the state business.
> 5) What this has led to in the present day
> is a country where
> the only real accomplishment that an individual
> can achieve is in the arts or sports. The art
> is technically
> perfect but sometimes lacks originality or
> spontaniousness since to not be perfect mean
> that the person may
> lose their standing and have to find another
> career field. New thoughts or philosophies
> that are discouraged
> since they may endanger the state. Education
> or knowledge of how the human body operates
> that may increase a
> individual workers worth is discouraged.
> 6) Marx's state philosophy has resulted in
> a country run by
> people that often see no worth in natural products.
> Unless the item can be made by a company or
> mass produced it has
> no value. An example might be instead of
> farmers saving seed to grow next years crop,
> that the farmer would
> have to buy a special company seed.
> Problems with this philosophy gradually happen
> because of the
> strangle hold on education and new ideas, since
> the business is based on new technology to be
> able to build a new
> improved item that the worker needs to buy.
> Gradually the state business would have to
> rely on other countries
> for new ideas and machines.
> 7) Eventually the lack of worker education
> and ideas will
> topple the business, and when the business does
> attempt to start education it will have rampet
> plagiarism because
> the workers are taught to work together at the
> machines pace. This means that any worker
> having a different pace
> from their peer group will stand out, since
> workers do not compete against their own work
> they have a natural
> metronome in the shape of a machine that
> will slow them down or speed them up. State
> workers are not used
> to the stop and go pace of education that
> required the individual to have their own
> motivation. State
> workers have never had to set their own pace, they
> have always had other workers or the state
> defining the pace.
> They have not had to compete against their own
> previous work, so they end up competing
> against others. The
> overall level of the peer group gradually
> deteriorates since anyone that sets a faster
> pace or a higher
> standard is messing with the type of flow these
> workers are used to.
> N O T E S
> My interpretation of Marx, is that his
> ideas are not self
> sustaining, and eventually the state company will
> deteriorate
>
> that all self worth is derived from doing as
> well as if not better
> than the next worker. The workers do not attempt
> to better themselves because to do so would
> mean that the assembly
> line would not run smoothly, stay at the
> level of your peers, do not do or think
> differently than your
> peers.
> During the time of Karl Marx the majority
> of people in England
> were workers and their standard of living
> depended on the merchant class more than the
> aristocracy.
>
> Marx attempted to figure out have progress
> could continue in the
> best interest of all people.
>
> Technology was leading to increased
> productivity.
>
> Plagues, sickness, religion and family
> problems made machines seem
> to have greater reliability than people. -
> better investment
>
> Bottlenecks to business would have been
> nationalism or laws that
> gave individual people rights greater than the
> merchant. the laws of the country.
>
> He believed that a country's priority should
> be in taking care of
> businesses above the interest of territory or
> people. That taking care of the businesses
> would
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