Unemployment, and so on

[kandrathe]

Given that, I think your views that Marx was some authoritarian, undemocratic douche bag are hostile, and a bit unfairly grounded.

Until recently, I was in the petit bourgeoisie, as a self employed consultant. Now, I am a class traitor. I am a worker with privileges in the proletariat based on my skills, and I am an owner (through my retirement funds stock holdings).

Those labels feel kind of hostile, and were I in a place like Cuba, I'd be afraid of being expunged, or at the very least sent off to a re-education camp (prison).

According to Frances Fox Piven (Jan 2011, The Nation), "Local protests have to accumulate and spread—and become more disruptive— to create serious pressures on national politicians. An effective movement of the unemployed will have to look something like the strikes and riots that have spread across Greece in response to the austerity measures forced on the Greek government by the European Union, or like the student protests that recently spread with lightning speed across England in response to the prospect of greatly increased school fees. "

I guess you'd call that the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is either prophetic, or a clarion call by her to the left to begin radicalizing the disenfranchised.