CMV: Overall Marx was right about class warfare
I am not claiming every single point of his were correct and I am especially not defending the "communist" regimes of the 20th century. I just think the following observations of his were correct:
- Society is differentiated in classes. Classes are defined by wealth and power (or the lack thereof) being inherited over generations within families. This flies in the face of any meritocratic thinking.
- The owning class (be it conventional business owners, rich shareholders or landlords) extract wealth from the working class and therefor live in luxury.
- This is most obvious with billionaire shareholders, who have to do literally nothing to (on average, over time) become richer and richer, just because they own the companies in the first place. While living in luxury.
- So the owning class lives as a parasite on the working class, who actually does all the labor necessary to materially sustain their extravagant lifestyle while being materially less well-off due to the owning classes existence.
- This creates class tension / class warfare, however we may call it.