Dr. Craig's post really cleared things up on Marxist criticism. The part when Dr. Craig mentioned how the American ruling class brainwashes the working class into thinking that they are fighting the system by purchasing certain commodities, makes the working class seem so pathetic.
Here we are (and I say "we" because I would put my pennies down on the fact that no one reading this is part of the ruling class), going about our day to day lives, some of us struggling to buy books, or pay rent, or concerned about being in $160,000 in debt within the next one or two years, unable to change any of it. Most are aware of the ruling class that has so much money they don't know what to do with it, but there are often the rebellious folks who attempt to fight it. In high school, my boyfriend at the time was one of these rebels. He would criticize me for my Uggs, or Northface, or anything else with a brand, for "feeding the corporations". He was doing the same thing when he bought CDs, concert tickets and his Vans slip ons.
Even the CDs that my boyfriend bought were singing about the war, the economy, how people need to "stand up for what they believe in" all gave back to the ruling class. These bands were signed onto big record labels and most of the money gained from CD, concert and t-shirt sales was ulitmately given back to the owners of the label and became another social contradiction that still has not been resolved.
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I really enjoyed your blog post, especially how you connected what Dr. Craig was saying to your own personal experience. I'm not sure about you but in many ways I feel trapped by Marxism. Regardless of whether or not I want to fight the system it seems I am unable to since it's so easy to become apart of. After all, we've all decided to come to college in hopes that our degrees will lead us to better jobs when we finally get out, and in doing so we are perpetuating this system where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Education isn't something available to everyone rather it is only provided to those who can afford it. Thus education has become a privilege, not a right. Yet so often it seems people neglect to think about how education segregates society as going to college has become "the thing to do" and yet for those who cant afford to go a college education is a way of repressing them and maintaining class position.
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