Today amos.poe posted on Instagram
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be the one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
Marx and Engels were astounded by the English workers inability to revolt against capitalism, but understood how the power elite used religion, nationalism, and small adjustments in worker’s benefits ie wages and potato chips, to convince the proelitariat that they were better off than before. Worse was the TV show WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE which persuaded the present hoi polloi that they could become luck by chance. Oh, Mickey, you were never a Marxist, but they stole your persona to create wealth.