2016 Postmortem

"They want to be fully justified in hating those who succeed, and the only way to do that yet remain engaged is to insanely support an impossible ideology."

When the "success" of individuals is built on a system in which the foundations are savage oppression, insidious exploitation, and the criminal theft of labor and more...hatred of that system - and the foundations on which it is built - is a justifiable response in every way. Individual success is not an admirable trait or an admirable notion under such human social relations. I'm sure many slave owners spewed the same nonsense about the hatred of slavery and "purity" of the Abolitionists and those who opposed human slavery.

You also ignore history to make such a reactionary post.

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."

--Karl Marx


You also ignore the obvious truth.

"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society.

This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of political rights. "

--Albert Einstein