Marx on The Drum, page-48

Morning Tigs

Dear old Marx was good at 'showing a lot of things'. But despite your apostrophes to the "free market" Herr Marx was much in awe of the "free market", in his insightful age of the pre-ballpoint pen.

Sadly he could offer no real solution, to his defined problem ► "There be profits!" - other than - but that there would be a revolution.

So rather precious of him.

Yet it is him that defines the classes as irreconcilable. He objectifies the classes. He makes the concrete divides...

But those divides are not there, unless you/he want it to be so. They are a social construct. His social construct... That they are classes - created in his mind, at each other's throats is Herr Marx's gift to humanity. Could he not comprehend the true symbiotic interaction, between a markets needs for BOTH consumption and deferred consumption, and the humans those markets dictate?

Both are OUR human propensities.

I stress ►► human.

Humans have brains, and "free" brains, for the most part, and can seek to pursue to define themselves. That is the point of argument of the post-Marx acolytes. In fact humans must seek/pursue defining themselves, or be a nothing.

Either you are a member of "that" herd...wildebeest no. # 345,178 or you have the strength, each day, in each small way to affirm yourself. Be someone.

Do you eat all of your pitiful lump of dry stale rye bread today, or do you save some? Perhaps then, one day, to buy an all crucial second Maus prison shirt? A micro decision that defines, as a succession of decisions - your humanity.

But "no" said Fred Marx, "not for you wildebeest no. # 345,178!" You are a member of the herd class.

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The abundance of natural resources in a country, can prove to be a curse.

Countries like Australia, Saudi Arabia & Norway are sadly so cursed! For one, it is a cue to the sulphurous "kindergarten - piece of cake" faux-economists like Herr Marx (Who studied politics & philosophy NOT economics), where each grabs his thesis of cake, and then argues as to why they should truly have the rights to stand in the front of the next Centrelink queue, and so on & so on (after Žižek) for ever more.

Sadly an abundant resource it is not a cue to the "you'd better get a move on, and start working" for winter is coming, pragmatists...the antithesis to Mr. Marx's understandings and insights.

[What? Does Australia produce anything any more? Toothpicks? Or is the lumber needed, and being spared to save the planet? ]

So yes aggregation of assets, such that they are not priced properly by the market is an issue for a free-market economy as much as it is a problem for any of the bovines in the herd. See Marx (After Nietzsche)

But if everyone were to save, then capital needed could be raised, so as to exploit the abundant resource and so too to share it's worth, to those who have deservedly answered the demands of life's fortitude. So as such, a set of rational market tools exist & prevail - that explain the process, address the complexity of pricing, and the equity of the process, rather than having the vicious sway of that loud man with jack boots, and a bad haircut, poor accent, shouting the crudest & most vacuous decrees & platitudes from the all high entranced party meeting pulpit or lectern. (See John Setka)