poor brainwashed proletarians.
So they have no agency then?
Once enough capital becomes concentrated into few enough hands…
More capital is concentrated in fewer hands now than in the Gilded Age. Just how bad does it have to get before the revolt? And if a revolution does happen, wouldn’t it be launched by the middle classes who have the leisure time and connections to plan one rather than starving peasants just trying to survive, just like in every other revolution in history?
they’ll cast off their chains and the world revolution will begin.
Actual proletarians don’t care about ‘world revolution,’ that’s always been a project of bourgeois intellectuals. Actual proletarians just want decent living and working conditions in their own country and don’t give a damn about the rest of the world.