In my second favorite author Ken Macleod’s blog, he makes an entry titled Surveying Information Age Warfare, in which he comments on how the 21st century is likely to go, how no socialist revolution has been a proletariat revolution and no proletariat revolution has been a socialist revolution, how there are increasing numbers of proletariat revolutions these days – the working classes are more numerous and intelligent than ever – and hopefully they’ll soon get the hang of it. I’ve been thinking (much more incoherently) along these lines myself lately. Socialism as form of government and an economic system will likely never work, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still class warfare going on. There are a very small number of people in the world who control and/or own an obscenely large percentage of the world’s resources. They, naturally, actively and consciously pursue class warfare on the lower classes in an effort to hang onto what they have – just as any human tries to hang on to what they have once they have it. Unfortunately, it is unjust to perpetuate this feudal system, and the working classes are getting stronger and smarter.

But because of this situation, the 21st century looks to be a bloody one, even if only metaphorically.

I guess my biggest fear, though I won’t live to find out, is that even the 21st century will turn out to not be the final resolution of the centuries-long class war, and even our great-great-great-grandchildren will still be fighting for the possible future of a peaceful, equitable society.