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yallerdawg

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4. Where we are today! Great article, Marxism 101!

Reply to TBF (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 02:21 PM

Apr 2015

Because the divisions within the working class are used by the ruling class to increase the exploitation and oppression of everyone, the working class must directly challenge oppression in all of its manifestations and overcome those divisions if it wants to carry out the most effective fight against its own exploitation. This is why Marxists see the working class as the revolutionary agent--a class whose members, in struggling for their own interests, have the potential to lead the fight against class domination in general and for the liberation of all.

The answer to your question, then, is "Yes we can!"

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Can the working class still change the world? [View all] TBF Apr 2015 OP

Hell yes.... daleanime Apr 2015 #1

Potential is there, but like many explosives, a fuse is needed to ignite it. guillaumeb Apr 2015 #2

That change will have to come from the rest of the world, the lower tiers of which eridani Apr 2015 #3

Where we are today! Great article, Marxism 101! yallerdawg Apr 2015 #4

I agree - the trick is convincing folks they TBF Apr 2015 #5