Are You a Worker or an Owner?

No doubt in my mind that I was raised by workers. Like Marx's said, there is the dominant. The dominants are the one percent in my eyes. The reason I say I was raised by workers is because my parents have worked for very wealthy people. Marx's theory explains how the owners control the means of production and exploit them and that is exactly what has been done to my parents. They have been exploited by the owners, their bosses. Time and time again. My mother has worked in prestigious restaurants and she didn't get paid, if she did it was crap. The amount of work that they put in is outrageous. Yet you have these owners who are making huge profits not giving a single care in the world about their employees, or should I say slaves. My father has worked in the fields, in a huge pool plastering company and as a trucker. Those jobs are very demanding physically as you could imagine well my father was not allowed to drink water or make a stop at times because he had to work.

I honestly believe that not that many people have developed a class consciousness. I say not many because it seems to be only the educated population. It may be because they are more aware, for example nurses and teachers going on strike for a higher salary. Then we also had the employees of the chain restaurant McDonalds asking for a raise. Just the other day we were talking about how they told a group of workers from the field that their overtime began at 60 hours, these workers know it's not true. What happened? Nothing, no action was taken because they live in fear. Many are aware that basically the world is being controlled by a very small population, yes the all and mighty; one percent. However, we need to help the other workers see the class differences and consciousness. I believe that one way to do so is by taking them back in time and telling them from when this class difference all began. When we the people lost the control we had and handed it to one person to rule us, yes we live in a democracy but do we really? It's like Karl Marx said the owners control our ideas, we are given the idea and belief that we are in control. Example voting for the president, wake up people we are simply putting up a show but the president has long been elected before you even walked up to that poll station. Before your pen touched that ballot, we are puppets the electoral college is in control the congress is in control and the congress is controlled by who, you guessed it the one percent. I think that we honestly have to revolt in a non violent way would be nice. Anyways, I think that the people have to rise as one and drop everything and break the system crash the stock market after all that's all this country is worried and driven by money. Hit them where it'll hurt them. We may think that hard times will come if this occurred. Well it happened before and look at us now. The economy will fix itself but we need to reshape the system by taking power into our own hands. Becoming more politically aware. Changing government officials and putting those we truly want, in office in our office. We have to stop being oppressed, we need to bear arms and take a stand, but the key is; we need to do so together as a whole.