Welcome to the New Class Struggle, Proles
If there was hope, it MUST lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 percent of the population of Oceania, could be the force to destroy the Party. The Party could not be overthrown from within. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.
In George Orwell’s seminal classic 1984, Winston Smith tells us the proles don’t realize they are oppressed by their government. This is why they don’t rise up.
For decades, Americans have been fed the lie of capitalism. At the same time, they witnessed the rise of the plutocracy as fat cat corporate leaders hijacked the political system.
Those in energy, finance and big technology grabbed the reins of the country’s economic engine and started steering us toward the rocks.
Capitalism Kills the Middle Class
“…Capitalism is not an economic system that produces a middle class. In fact, if left to its own devices, capitalism tends towards vast levels of inequality and monopoly. The natural and most stable state of capitalism actually looks a lot like the Victorian England depicted in Charles Dickens’ novels” — Salon
