Are the privileged and powerful right to fear their wage slaves?

Answer 1

I will overrun those wage slaves!

Answer 2

I doubt that many live with such fear. Just a recent example, consider Paris Hilton. She was genuinely shocked and out raged that she had to serve time for a crime. The privileged and powerful rarely consider their "wage slaves" much less fear them. The system protects them and we protect the system. Money is a flawed system but so long as we have a hope of acquiring money no matter how faint we will support the system. We have proven for centuries that we will protect this system with our lives. Because we as a group are not too bright.

Answer 3

They should be. The wage slaves usually have enough brains to have a few weapons - guns, stuff like that to at least start a conflict. The government always has more - for awhile. The people still haven't figured out that our country is headed right for the toilet and the congress and the president fail to listen to the people who have spoken!

Answer 4

yes if they ever let the slaves recogize that they are being scammed hard core. I think as long as they have their MTV and American Idol they are pretty happy. Also they have to firmly believe lies like
anyone can be president
anyone can be a millionaire

not the actual statistical truth of how very very improbable it is.
also keeping them stressed over things like immigration and Iraq is critical so they keep their collective will dispersed in several directions. The fear of terrorist attacks, bird flu, meteors etc are also good for this.

Answer 5

If we keep allowing the importing of other counties poverty, yes, someday a Chavez mights come to power here in our country and we will pay a heavy price for this so called cheap labor

Answer 6

I certainly hope so.I hope people will wake up and take what's theirs.That they will no longer accept corporate handouts while ordinary people suffer.
The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen.

Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).

"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few 6 is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society." Karl Marx is still relevant today!

Answer 7

HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
• Human history is based on basic economic relations.
Modes of production: there are three modes of production
• Ancient between slave owners and slave
• Feudal  between lord and serfdom
• Capital  between bourgeoisie and Proletarian

SO, WE ARE WAGE SLAVES (WORKER VS EMPLOYER)

Answer 8

Wage slave is an oxymoron.

This rigid class system in your mind doesn't exist outside it.

Answer 9

It does worry me all those lazy have nots who want to steal my income and wealth to take things they have not earned. The level of socialism in this country is going to destroy us. There are plenty of politicians who will cater to that.

Answer 10

Ultimately there will be rebellion, when people realize their government has sold them out to remorseless and conscienceless business interests.

It will take time.

People still haven't figured out they've been sold out.

olcaykur---add to that little list the modern condition:

Subservient consumer service workers -- corporations