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Saturday, March 25, 2023

The CLASS STRUGGLE in capitalist society can quickly turn Darwinian violent and ugly

What Karl Marx called the CLASS STRUGGLE " in capitalist society can quickly turn Darwinian violent and ugly . In the STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE few creatures accept a virtual death sentence which is what prolonged homelessness amounts to . As for the morality of this " class struggle " read the Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky's essay " Their Morals and Ours ". Way back in 1905 and 1917 , however , Trotsky warned against the reckless foolishness of " individual terrorism ". American socialist writer Jack London also wrote on this theme of mean and bloody STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE . In the animal world London gave us the popular novel " The Call of the Wild ".

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