Saturday, October 24, 2009
Maxist Theory
Marxism seems to be the story of paradox and that nothing is as it first seems. We are tricked in life, by our eyes and our dreams reams. Promises dissolve in the reality of clas control and man's inhumanity to one another. Marxism is a grim tale and difficult to agree with, as we cling to our ideals of democracy,freedom and capatalist success. I was raised on a farm and it was very hard at times, yet also immensely reassuring in the stability living on a farm afforded me. But the cold ax of bankruptcy loomed more than once. The sadness of shipping cattle to slaughter never left me. The ambivalence of the goodness of feeding the human race versus the destruction of living fellow creatures was always a conundrum. Growing vegetables and fruits seems like a much more honest way to make a living, but is frought with pesticides to earn survival. Can pastoral beauty be celebrated without ownership, classism and destruction? Are National Parks the new Marxism?
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Speaking of farms, I remember in the 50's and 60's the Communist approach to farming. The "peasants" were given plots of land of their own in the hopes that once everyone was "equal" production would soar. The opposite took place. Seems profit does motivate the proletariate. Five year plans were devised to accomplish production goals, yet, food shortages were rampant. Seems when the harvest was put into a common hopper-the combined efforts of the hard-working and laid-back, capitalistic motivation took precedence.
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