Capitalism, which Marx once predicted would die out soon, is not even at the end of its historical cycle where it belongs, as a matter of fact. No ism lives forever and eventually dies out, and capitalism realized it would die out so it made changes and is indeed stronger now than at any time. How did capitalism manage to have a few people rule over many? It unites everything it can, and it allows everyone to own capital as well so that everyone is in the same boat as that small elite. It unites everything that can be united, and keeps the enemy disunited by spouting ideas of freedom, independence, trends, etc. in the media so that everyone looks down on everyone, and so that the ideological gaps between everyone are so far apart that they can never be screwed together.
Capitalism, which Marx once predicted would die out soon, is not even at the end of its historical cycle where it belongs, as a matter of fact. No ism lives forever and eventually dies out, and capitalism realized it would die out so it made changes and is indeed stronger now than at any time. How did capitalism manage to have a few people rule over many? It unites everything it can, and it allows everyone to own capital as well so that everyone is in the same boat as that small elite. It unites everything that can be united, and keeps the enemy disunited by spouting ideas of freedom, independence, trends, etc. in the media so that everyone looks down on everyone, and so that the ideological gaps between everyone are so far apart that they can never be screwed together.