(Blog Post) Sociology trumps mythology. We have one of the lowest rates of inter-generational social mobility of any industrial country. Income and wealth have become more not less concentrated in the hands of the American rich – all this at a time when some like the Obamas have achieved a good measure of their dreams in ways that are not only undeniable but laudable. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Blim provides a cogent view of the economic classes in America as the rich have acquired so much wealth and power relative to previous decades.
This a a neo-marxist rant. The "rich" are not a unified class and they have little political power as shown by the fact the Obama is in office. The entire premise of the article is that the "rich" whoever they are are plotting against everyone else.
Marxism is like a vampire. You can't kill it. Marxism resulted in vast bloodshed, misery and amazing economic failure everyplace it has been tried. This doesn't seem to deter new generations of Marxists advocating the exact same programs. There is no society w/o rich people. In Marxist society they are politicans and intellectuals. In capitalist society they are producers.
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