RespectTradition
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What do you think that Karl Marx would say about all the Bourgeoisie complaints against the Obama policies designed to rescue the proletariat from their oppressors?
In "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," Marx said:
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
"Industry and trade, hence the business affairs of the middle class, are to prosper in hot-house fashion under the strong government. The people are to be given employment. Inauguration of public works. But the public works increase the obligations of people with respect to taxes."
"An unemployed surplus population reaches out for state offices as a sort of respectable alms, and provokes the creation of state posts."
"an enormous bureaucracy, well-dressed and well-fed, is the 'idée napoléonienne' which is most congenial of all to the second Bonaparte."
"Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, for the whole apparatus of executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical."
These taxes, he added, "rob [the peasant's] industry of its last resources and aid and complete his powerlessness to resist pauperism... strong and unlimited government ... has become a vampire that sucks out its blood and marrow."
In "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," Marx said:
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
"Industry and trade, hence the business affairs of the middle class, are to prosper in hot-house fashion under the strong government. The people are to be given employment. Inauguration of public works. But the public works increase the obligations of people with respect to taxes."
"An unemployed surplus population reaches out for state offices as a sort of respectable alms, and provokes the creation of state posts."
"an enormous bureaucracy, well-dressed and well-fed, is the 'idée napoléonienne' which is most congenial of all to the second Bonaparte."
"Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, for the whole apparatus of executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical."
These taxes, he added, "rob [the peasant's] industry of its last resources and aid and complete his powerlessness to resist pauperism... strong and unlimited government ... has become a vampire that sucks out its blood and marrow."
