" Class war " - an old political theme

 On the front page of " The Christian Science Monitor " Jan. 9

    this headline : " A political theme emerges: class war ".

               In general I'm inclined to pacifism and compromise rather

    than set off ANY war. But why does a country  willing to spend trillions

    on its military pretend that  CLASS WAR is somehow irrelevant to explaining

    the BIG PICTURE ? Why is the theme of class warfare - which like EVOLUTION

    in biology explains  much in human history - why is it nearly taboo in

    the respectable news media ?

                  Like the religious instinct there is something  those

    horrible Marxists called class consciousness. And we live in a culture

    where even political correctness conspires with reactionary opinion to

    smother it. Diversity is glorious, but class solidarity -independent of

    race and ethnic groups - is a nightmare for the ruling class  which seems

    to worship the  world market more than God Almighty.

                  The world market -without looking for rogues and villains -

    simply does not and cannot justly distribute the world's wealth.

                 It is not Marxist paranoia to believe that the EXPLOITATION

    of the many is the basis for the vast wealth of the few .

                   No degree of intellectual or physical superiority can

    explain the gap between the haves and the have nots. An inhuman economic

    machine -global capitalism - cruelly divides humanity.

                  Most conservatives try to rationalize the unacceptable.

    They think the root of all evil is the LIBERAL MENTALITY - which prevails

    nowhere except on Ivy League molehills.

                    Liberalism can at times indeed be mindless. But it is almost

    never heartless.