[Marxism] Hope on a May Day in the main ignored

[Ralph Johansen]

Congratulations to Lou, Les and the usual conspirators

Hope on a May Day in the main ignored in our land (except for Michele mi 
esposa, who just went out with her granddaughter to plant flowers)

Meszaros's  Beyond Capital @ p. 614:

"To believe, as we are told, that the contradictions on the side of both 
capital and labor either do not exist, or that they will never be 
recognized and acted on by those who are suffering their devastating 
impact, requires also believing that people are blind idiots and 
mesmerized forever by the promise of capital's universally beneficial 
'economic calculation', despite the system's monstrous failure directly 
affecting the life chances of thousands of millions.
 
Marx's assessment of the development of social consciousness is much 
more plausible, emphasizing that
 
'the recognition of the product as his own, and its awareness that its 
separation from the conditions of its realization is an injustice - /a  
relationship imposed by force/ - is an enormous advance in 
consciousness, /itself the product/ of the capitalist mode of production 
and just as much the KNELL OF ITS DOOM as the consciousness of the slave 
that he /could not be the property of another/ reduced slavery to an 
artificial lingering existence, and made it impossible for it to 
continue to provide the basis of production' (MEW 1861-4 p.246, Marx's 
italics and capitalization)."