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Social and Political: Marx and the End of History. The Omega of time; Class-free society
Yes, “It’s the end of the World as we know it. And I feel fine”
That’s the Marxist vision of the “end times”. Inspiration for an old song. Our 2 class system, the capitalists verses workers, by definition, is a contradiction. And all contradictions are eliminated by the inevitable process of history. Marx called this “dialectical materialism”. Call it what you wish, in the end all contradictions (thesis/anti-thesis) are resolved (synthesis) and we attain the class-free society, where prosperity unites us all and there is no division of power or control over the means of production—the economy. People are equal in their actual existence, not merely in opportunity. The capitalist class collapses into the working class while the working class collapses into the capital class and an entirely new society appears, with entirely new ideas, concepts, ways of relating and ways of being, the final way of being: That is Omega,
“The first (countably) infinite ordinal number, its corresponding cardinal number ℵ0 or the set of natural numbers (the latter of which are often defined to equal the former).”
Cheers~
Dr. Lee Basham
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