As you may or may not know I blog about various frameworks of liberation as well as current affairs in the world of politics. This particular blog is oriented toward those ideologies that recognize the importance of class in understanding society and toward that increasing worldwide probability that working classes will assume more and more of social, economic and political power.
I think that the working class has already had a tremendous influence on world social development. The Bolshevik and Chinese Revolutions are of particular note but of course both of these examples have now become their opposite and there is less influence by the working classes
in those countries than many other places.
Meanwhile we still have some socialistic programs in the United States like social security and Medicare so in this sense I think the United States is more socialistic or communistic that China, where they do not have such programs.
Of course, there is little open admission of socialist policies in the United States and some of the conservatives have been more accurate in calling certain things that are socialistic, socialist and the liberals try to avoid the term. Of course the social security and Medicare programs and even the current Chinese regime must ultimately trace their success to workers movements that led to Medicare and Social Security or in Asia to the Peoples Republic of China.
We haven't even mentioned the Russian Revolution and all the changes that came from that but the point here is that there was a very tiny proletariat at that time in Russia but the consequences of a powerful Proletarian movement changed the face of the world for seventy five years.
Today there are more workers than ever and they represent a larger proportion of society than ever. Who can REALLY THINK ABOUT THESE DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS and doubt that this huge body of workers will not ultimately seize real proletarian power and exercise it in a revolutionary way, for the working class, by the working class!
The greatest obstacle to change are the conservative and yes very bourgeois ideas and ideologies that have filled our heads and the heads of our immediate predecessors. The United States has a been remarkably silent as the working class bargaining power has been weakened and placed in competition with other workers across the world. In many nations the independent action of workers is made illegal.
