The liberal intellectuals have learned from the socialist philosophers, and have
convinced the elected politicians to legislate a welfare-state in order to impede
and to arrest the worst tendencies and directions of unrestrained and unregulated
capitalism. The predictions of Karl Marx, a socialist philosopher, were based upon
the continuation and the prolongation of laissez-faire capitalism; but the liberal
welfare-state legislations served to counteract what was predicted, and liberal
legislation did serve to preclude and prevent what socialist thinkers anticipated.
If you tinker with capitalism, you may circumvent and forestall the predicted future,
and you may be foolish enough to believe that you have forever solved the problems
of capitalism.

It is a hallmark of prophecy that people will very often make every attempt to prevent
the prophecy's fulfillment, only to discover that the prophecy's eventual realization was
assisted and furthered in every attempt to prevent the prophecy's concluding fruition.





Between Karl Marx's predictions and today, there has been created and legislated what
is known as the "welfare-state". If we take away the welfare-state, then perhaps we will
see Marx's predictions substantiated.





What Marx predicted has not yet been realized; but this is not a valid reason to believe
that what Marx predicted will never come to be. The welfare-state may have deterred
what Marx predicted; but, we have yet to see if the welfare-state is enough to forever
preclude the eventual downfall of capitalism, and the parturition of socialism. We have
yet to see if liberal legislation is enough to preserve a supervised and administered
capitalism, and if welfare laws are enough to perpetuate a moderated and regulated
capitalism.





The middle class are wage-earners. The proletariat are wage-earners.





State-socialism has collapsed. Authoritarian-communism has collapsed. But, no
social-democracy has ever collapsed; and, no libertarian-communism has ever
been created.





Karl Marx was not infallible.





"Whenever a child lies you will always find a severe parent."
-- Alfred Adler