1. It's not a question of opinions or views. Marx thought of history as a science and, believing that he had studied it sufficiently, found it to be a certainty that this revolution would come.
2. I assume you mean "void," rather than "devoid."
3. The argument that no perpetrators of the capitalist machine are endowed with the magical ability to understand the proletariat's will doesn't seem to be based on anything. Also: remember that Marx's family was pretty solidly bourgeois, and he didn't think that this precluded him from an understanding of the proletariat.
4. Unemployment during the Great Depression went over twenty percent (according to the Encyclopedia Britannica article), but the revolution count by the end of the thirties was still zero. Suffice it to say that ten percent unemployment alone is not enough to incite a revolution.
5. It's difficult to believe that the mighty warriors of the proletariat who will destroy the oppressive capitalist regime are--right now--starving in the streets. This sort of polarization is not going to lead to revolution.
This is Major Tom to Ground Control:
ReplyDeleteI heartily agree. Alex was not responding to my post, and instead relied on rather circular logic.