You always intuit your world view with some at top, evil persona with a purpose?
Some cabal, or otherwise schemer of 'the system'. A Cruella DeVille...
Have you not read Adam Smith's , account of the invisible hand? Or rather ibn Khaldun?
A very serious top down guy you are? You must have a God. And when Marx took your opiates away, and gave you another serotonin fix based the equivalent top down structure, you consumed it with glee - Communism the Heroin of the masses...
The herd, the gnus...their forage?
So if there must be that lurking, shadowy figure? Could it not be some-one like say yet another Karl Marx, who was born bourgeois, educated as bourgeois, and in his man of adult old age, speculated and traded on the London Stock Exchange like the bourgeois, and then lived in the plush comforts of a bourgeois suburb like Hampstead Heath as the bourgeois, and was ultimately buried, there - don't you feel some what duped?
He went to a steel mill; once!
This was in England! At a time when 100,000's of men, women & children worked coal pits in the UK, Germany & Sweden. He never stepped into a tip or a cage, nor dare visit a stope!
Not once...
He rather relied on the dramatic accounts of his mate Engels' stories of his dad's mills, and even re-edited Engels more prosaic prose to better romanticise the dreadful strife. Only Engels used to know of the earthly hell of Victorian Europe & England. This was a time, when slaves were still owned in the USA and Russian Serfs, where bought and sold in the Kholops market, or even killed if deemed redundant. It is not as if he had to try hard...empathy was at his door?
Doubtless he thought workers stank?
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So Marx identified the problems in markets, markets that awed him, but never offered a solution?
It was if he went to the Casino, and said 'on one day the market will fall on red' and then all those on black will dearly lose!!
