>>7856134...However, as the philosopher said. even a sheep could do that if it fell into the machinery. Marx-ism. in the interests of simplification, denied even a subsidiary value to the work of the creators. It had no value--only manual labour had value. Marx understood propaganda long before Lord Northcliffe was heard of.
Effective mass-propaganda cannot be too simple, and in the application of this rule. Marx should have received
some sort of prize: all History is class-war; all Life is class-war; they have the wealth, let us take it.
Marxism imputed Capitalistic instincts to the upper classes. and Socialistic instincts to the lower classes. This
was entirely gratuitous. for Marxism made an appeal to the capitalistic instincts of the lower classes. The upper
classes are treated as the competitor who has cornered all the wealth. and the lower classes are invited to take it away from them. This is capitalism. Trade unions arepurely capitalistic, distinguished from employers only
by the different commodity they purvey. Instead of an
article, they sell human labour. Trade-unionism is simply
a development of capitalistic economy, but it has nothing
to do with Socialism, for it is simply self-interest. It pits the economic interest of the manual labourers
against the economic interest of the employer and manager. It is simply Malthus in new company. It is still
the old" struggle for existence," man against man, group against group. class against class, everyone against the
State
Marxism showed its Capitalistic provenance in its idea
of "classes," its idea toward work, and its obsession
with economics.
