MARX MAY BE DEAD BUT HIS PROPHECIES LIVE ON

MARX MAY BE DEAD BUT HIS PROPHECIES LIVE ON

The tyranny of capital continues. Do you realise? That silent blood-sucking machinery that devitalises the masses and reduces them to beasts of burden, that exploitative order with which even religion conspires to hold humanity down in the mire of material deprivation while preaching lofty ideas of unlived spirituality, that agency of economic accumulation that denies labour its due share while injecting the intoxicant of present denial and future fulfilment into the bloodstream of the blind masses! Then reason and react, respond and redress.

The times are perilous and the masses are being exploited to the marrow. How can you not respond responsibly to the challenges of this universal exploitation? Marx may be dead but Marxism in its prophetic pronouncements lives on. Read and understand the cunning and the contradictions of capitalism. Then fight for your labour rights, your right to decent salary where donation amounts are spent for building non-productive institutional arrangements but a bare minimum of return for service rendered is denied the employees. Add to it the vast scale of labour exploitation by big business and you have your 'picture perfect' of humanity as slaves rather than divinities in charge of their own destiny. Therefore, do not give in to exploitation. Resist it at every level.

Written by Sugata Bose