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In reply to the discussion: 5 Signs America’s Super-Rich Are Going Off the Deep End [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)in the theater. Yet whatever scared them is still scaring them, I am guessing. Not much of a solution.
Or the guillotine of the Sans-Culotte in France, who made up the bulk of the forces on the Left in the French Revolution. At first it was ok, beheading the tyrants and all. But in the end their leaders and thousands of them were also beheaded, and the wealthy took over.
Oops. Not much of a solution there, either.
It's an interesting problem. You are thinking about the piggies. They are also thinking about themselves (believe me when I tell you that you are invisible in their world - they would NEVER think about us) .
Who does that leave to think about you?
(This guy, was thinking about you, and them...maybe if the French hadn't ignored him back in 1550.... People think this is a NEW problem?)
Please don't fool yourself. The wealthy aren't afraid of us at all, and most everyone, deep inside, know that. All these little rabble rousers running around talking about guillotines and crap are mostly just ignorant of history. While it might be possible to depose them at the point of a gun, there is a reason that Rockefeller is quoted as saying "The time to make money is when there is blood running in the streets".
The wealthy see revolution as a buying opportunity. That's why they laugh and throw McDonald's applications down on protestors. They aren't afraid of you, of us, at all. They know we are too dull to be of any real threat, and nearly any solution that those now in servitude come up with is going to be done inside the limits they have set, and the most violent can be easily controlled with their military and police, the NSA, the government.
If you really want to change things, you will also need a union that worked toward giving you control like the Industrial Unions. Make business come to you, on your terms. It's a lot harder, and you will probably get killed before it gets better. It's easy to walk out of the field, much harder to leave the apparent safety of the Master's house. Regardless, until one commits to that, they will never end their servitude.
They don't teach this stuff much of anywhere public, but if you get a chance (probably in a nearby university library) you may want to read
Them and Us:The Struggles of a Rank-and-File Union - by James J. Matles & James Higgins
or
The Autobiography of Mother Jones by Jones (Mother Jones), Mary Harris
These are their songs, http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/iww.html
I like The Preacher and the Slave ("Pie in the Sky"
and perhaps this: http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2012/05/its-21st-century-but-house-negro-is.html#.UwUfsmfyOsQ
The study of these will give you a whole different idea about Unions, who is your friend and who isn't, about slavery and servitude.
Heck, it might change your tune.