This Came To Me In A Dream

A spectre is haunting the world -- the spectre of anthropogenic global warming. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: England and Germany, Social Democrats and Greens.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. The largest struggle has been between those who work for a living, and those who live by taxing the workers. They have engaged in an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that sometimes results in higher taxes and inferior living conditions for the toiling masses.

In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In every case, those who live off the sweat of their brow must support those who do not. The justifications were varied: that the nobles were military protection for the peasants; that there was a divine right of kings to rule; in the twentieth century, that those who toiled must be taxed to support the less fortunate. While there were often genuine needs that taxation of the masses met, these were merely excuses for the privileged classes to maintain themselves in luxury and to keep the working classes from reaching that same level of comfort. (John Kerry, for example.)

The exploiting classes have long sought excuses to increase taxation on those who work. In the 1990s, those who toil became increasingly unwilling to continue support for a welfare system that created dependency and pathology, and the exploiting classes searched desperately for a basis upon which to erect a new system for impoverishing the workers, one that would be both new and old. The reasons would be new, and therefore not obviously false. The results would be old: the continued transfer of wealth from those who labor, preventing the bourgeois from acquiring the luxury of time that wealth provides, and which has hitherto only been enjoyed by the exploiting classes.

The exploiting classes cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of taxation, and thereby the relations of taxation, and with them the whole relations of society. The need of a constantly expanding tax base to impoverish the bourgeois chases the exploting classes over the entire surface of the globe, looking for excuses in melting glaciers. It must build mansions everywhere, travel by private jet everywhere, establish environmental think tanks everywhere.

The exploiting class has, through its exploitation of the bourgeois, given a cosmopolitan character to taxation and government in every country. The exploiting classes of every nation have found common cause in an uncertain theory of global warming with which it frightens the most easily misled segment of the masses into destroying their own future wealth and happiness.

The exploiting class keeps more and more of the means of production, and of property, by developing new and more sophisticated methods of impoverishing those who work. It seeks to agglomerate wealth, centralize the control of production, and concentrate property in a few hands. The necessary consequence of this will be political centralization. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments, and systems of taxation, will become lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class interest, one frontier, and one customs tariff.

Let the exploiting classes tremble at a workers' revolution. Those who work for a living have nothing to lose but their carbon taxes. They have a world to win.

Workers of all countries, unite!