Marx Revisited

As part of my reading assignment, I've gone
back and read parts of the Communist Manifesto.  
In it, there's a good summary of the simmering
fight between the haves and the have-nots. 
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html

BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS [1]

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The history of all hitherto existing society [2] is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master [3] and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other -- bourgeoisie and proletariat.

Reviewing our current situation, it appears that 
Marx was correct, except that he ignored the power 
structure that exists behind the bourgeoisie. 

Isn't this where conspiracy theory meets reality?

Comments welcome ...

Jay.




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