The Conspiracy of Everything!

[HoreTore]

Its not a bad model for viewing history in a social context. History is big, and class struggles have been a defining factor in all large and impactful nations, and is likely to be a major factor in the future globalized world. I'm really not an expert on modern Socialism though.

Yeah....... A quick "Marxism 101" would be to take what you wrote there, and then twist it into lala-land.

The struggle between the Haves and the Have-nots, peasant and lord, proletariat and capitalist, or whatever you want to call it, is undoubtedly a major feature of human history. No sign of it being less important in the future either.

The first sign of sillyness comes when the Marxist elevates this feature so high it becomes the sole method of explaining history. Remember racism, gender issues, religious differences, cultures, etc? All irrelevant to the Marxist, they are but symptoms of the class struggle, and have no independent meaning.

Then, of course, comes silly point #2: this nice theory has to fit into an arbitrary philosophical system, Dialectics. Suffice to say, when 10.000 years of history plus the future is crammed into a system with only three stages, it tends get messy....

[HopAlongBunny]

Throw out class? The dialectic!?

I...I...I feel alienated