Re: Some questions

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     Where did Marx state that the "monied class" could be
"painlessly neutralized"?  I know that Marx was not internally
consistent in his writings (e.g. the infamous "transformation
problem"), but it is certainly my perception that he spent many
pages, for example in Vol. I of Capital, describing in almost
excruciating detail the vigor and methods by which the capitalists
would defend their interests.  Through most of his career, if
not all of it, he forecast a proletarian revolution, which, as
Mao put "would not be a dinner party," although as Lenin put it,
"you have to break some eggs in order to make an omelette."  If
by "monied classes" Doug Henwood is referring to the feudal
aristocracy, even there the process was hardly painless in Marx's
eyes as shown by the French Revolution.
Barkley Rosser
James Madison University