Debunking The Class Struggle Myth (I. Bourgeois and Proletarians)

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I’m dropping the ultimate takedown of The Communist Manifesto—a brutal, no-holds-barred dissection of Marx’s nonsense. It launches on March 14, the anniversary of Karl Marx’s death, but you don’t have to wait.

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Class Warfare or Class Fiction? Marx's Greatest Myth Exposed

Karl Marx claimed all of human history could be reduced to a simple cage match: oppressors versus oppressed, ruling class versus working class, bourgeoisie versus proletariat. This seductive narrative has captured the imagination of intellectuals and activists for generations—and left a trail of economic ruin and human suffering in its wake.

The truth is Marx's class struggle theory isn't just wrong—it's catastrophically wrong. It systematically ignores how human societies actually function, dismisses the power of voluntary cooperation, and conveniently overlooks the mountain of evidence proving that free markets create prosperity while communist regimes create poverty.

In this devastating chapter, I methodically dismantle Marx's foundational myth. Using hard historical data, we expose how his predictions failed spectacularly, how worker conditions improved dramatically under capitalism, and how every attempt to implement his ideas led to economic collapse and authoritarianism. From the Holodomor to the Gulag to Mao's Great Leap Forward, Marx's "workers' paradise" turned out to be hell on earth.

But the class struggle myth hasn't died—it's just been repackaged. Today's "equity" initiatives, identity politics, and anti-capitalist movements are just Marx's same failed ideas in new wrapping paper. We trace the direct line from his 19th-century manifesto to modern movements dedicated to dismantling the very economic system that's lifted billions out of poverty.

This isn't just historical analysis—it's a warning. As George Santayana famously observed, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." And Marx's deadly legacy is the last history we should want to repeat.

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