"Maybe it’s the working classes who make society and the economy run that are the actual wealth creators and are the vast majority and should be the ruling class?"
What you are describing is the perfect communist system. A Marxian critique of capitalism.
As Caitlin is warning us here, the organised capitalist societies - specially the neoliberal capitalism of US/West - condition and brainwash the masses not to think outside the box. Communism was interpreted as the horror that will take away their freedoms. And boy! didn't they lap it up!
Michael Zimmerman, Thank you for your lucid post.
"Maybe it’s the working classes who make society and the economy run that are the actual wealth creators and are the vast majority and should be the ruling class?"
What you are describing is the perfect communist system. A Marxian critique of capitalism.
As Caitlin is warning us here, the organised capitalist societies - specially the neoliberal capitalism of US/West - condition and brainwash the masses not to think outside the box. Communism was interpreted as the horror that will take away their freedoms. And boy! didn't they lap it up!