You're right. I have no answers, I don't even have your eloquence, and I don't know what to say to this. (Sometimes I'm a bit afraid of speaking to you because I always sound like a halfwit. So excuse my English.)
In other words, they encourage the worker, either to settle down in a world of poor expectations, poor education, poor ambitions, or else to turn one's ambitions to a world of shallow desires, of wealth and consumption, of "glamour". Yes. It takes the attention away from what ought to be the most important task of today, to remove the barriers between the rich world and the poor. IMO that's what socialism is (or should be) about today - eliminating the differences between rich and poor, international solidarity. What we need now is an ideology not for the working class, but for the class that was never allowed to work. Those who have been pushed aside by society. But what do you do when this class no longer cares? Bread and circus - it has been like that ever since the Romans; give it to the people and it will take their attention away from what really matters. I haven't given up on Socialism just yet. Honestly, I can't see an alternative, at least not for the class I belong to.
Hope you get more replies to this, I'd like to see what others have to say.
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Date: 2004-09-18 01:25 pm (UTC)In other words, they encourage the worker, either to settle down in a world of poor expectations, poor education, poor ambitions, or else to turn one's ambitions to a world of shallow desires, of wealth and consumption, of "glamour".
Yes. It takes the attention away from what ought to be the most important task of today, to remove the barriers between the rich world and the poor. IMO that's what socialism is (or should be) about today - eliminating the differences between rich and poor, international solidarity.
What we need now is an ideology not for the working class, but for the class that was never allowed to work. Those who have been pushed aside by society. But what do you do when this class no longer cares? Bread and circus - it has been like that ever since the Romans; give it to the people and it will take their attention away from what really matters.
I haven't given up on Socialism just yet. Honestly, I can't see an alternative, at least not for the class I belong to.
Hope you get more replies to this, I'd like to see what others have to say.