Well now, it just gets better and better. How long will it take for Hillary Clinton to actually begin using words like bourgeoisie and proletariat? They do have a morbidly romantic quality to them which would blend rather well with terms like “we’re all in this together” or “shared prosperity“.
The only real difference between Hillary Clinton and Karl Marx is that while he was poverty stricken, she is swimming in dough. I would certainly like to know how much of her wealth she actually shares with the less fortunate. Actually, I’d prefer to know just how carefully she protects that wealth from the IRS. If I had to fathom a guess, I’d speculate that she would make a threatened mother wolverine look tame.
Saying things like “it’s time to replace an ‘on your own’ society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity” may fool some people and even inspire them to cast a vote for her, but my estimation is that it will alienate more than it attracts. Especially when the campaign season gets down to brass tacks and she is forced to defend or explain such ideology. (Assuming, of course, that any pundit who can gain access to her actually has the cajones to ask).
But there can be no mistake that the rhetoric she has used recently and more brazenly is precisely what Marx and Engels espoused, which was class separation and a supposed protective love for the working class. It is clear that rather than encourage people to work hard to get as far as they can go, she advocates equal misery for all. That is, except for the ruling class, which would include her and her ilk. Since everyone can’t be equally successful we must ensure that they all fail and are miserable on the same level. But of course, we’ll need leaders still, and leading is a full time job that requires wealth, so we’ll just hang onto ours, okay? (Wink wink, nudge nudge).
Marx believed that alienation is a systematic result of capitalism. Hillary is following the same strategy, attempting to break people into two groups (Edwards called it Two Americas) in her quest to end capitalism, for which she has demonstrated an obvious disdain. She already has vast wealth. Now the last goal for her is total control over the population.
And she’s not even trying to be sneaky about it anymore. This could be a good thing, as long as she doesn’t lull too many to sleep.
-Woody
