Monday, March 2, 2015

A Marxist View of the Democrats' Entitlement Economy

In the U.S. political arena, the Democrat Party has used the language of Marx in the sense of stating, as Marx did, that workers should enjoy better pay, a decent standard of living, and good health care.  They are the political party that understands the needs of workers, so they say in every campaign.  They are the defenders of the rights of Marx’s proletariat.
The one great characteristic of Marx’s theory of society is that it has is a great flaw, in that Marx only spoke about the private sector of the economy, he never talked about the public sector.  But this oversight may be due to the fact that industrialized society was just beginning in the Western world when Marx wrote. He saw the new rise of capitalism/industrialism as having exploitive characteristics.
It is important to understand that Karl Marx never spoke of food stamps, welfare, and free health care as a remedy for the exploitation of the worker.  He held that workers should unite together and run the government so that all are treated equally and no one class exploits the other; that the wages and benefits to workers should be fair and equitable. So when Democrats take the language of Marxism and use it to enable entitlement creation they are not following Marx’s theory of class society.

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