In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl Marx

People confuse and associate Marx with Communism too much. Marx’s main subject was Capital – concentrating all the wealth in hands of the few. This is called “globalism” today. And it is still happening, more then ever because the process accelerates all the time – banks and global corporations keep amassing Capital and therefore power – while general populous is getting poorer and increasingly hopeless. Politicians are useless because they need money to do anything – compromising their ideals, dreams and promises in the process. At the end they realize that they are powerless but they hang on to their status for Ego trip money and power bring. With communism practically dead Marx’s theories are considered to be a lot of communist tosh. Not so – they are as valid today as when he wrote them – only more so.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell

George Orwell wrote 2 famous books: “1984″ and “Animal Farm”. This is similar story to Marx. People thought the books were about communism. People think the “1984″ book was supposed to happen in year 1984. So they ignore those books as invalid while politicians treat them as “textbooks”. “Animal Farm” title says it all – we are a cattle horded by Capitalists – people with money and therefore power. We don’t have any freedom, we spend 90% of our time on things we don’t like doing or rather not do. When we have work and therefore money we don’t have time for ourselves and others. When we have time due to unemployment – we don’t have money to travel and visit others, to enjoy the “excess” of free time. We are in no-win situation and, to add the insult to injury, work is not supposed to be fun or pleasure – but something which buys us “freedom” and better quality of life. Does it really?

Orwell is very interesting figure and, sadly, a lot of people believe he was a communist. Not so. Orwell joined various Revolutions and yes, he was very excited about them – people, real people deciding about their future. But he soon discovered that people are just people – doesn’t matter whether they are “communists” or “capitalists” or “pink” or “religious” – there is always a power struggle, Ego battles and every revolution is manipulated by those who have power and money… so at the end he came to conclusion that any fight is absolutely useless – one can spend one’s time better lying in bed rather than trying to fight for one’s rights and personal freedom.

If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change, only in the course of time will you start; moving into the world of light and crystallization, but once you are crystallized you will know what real revolution is. Then share your revolution with others; it has to go that way, from heart to heart.
Osho

Osho was spiritual guru who is said to reach enlightenment in his 20-ties. He is considered “spiritual rebel”. He practically says the same things as Orwell – but from spiritual point of view. He is against churches and religion and establishment – and explains how they manipulate masses for their own benefit. He turns everything around by brilliantly noticing that every religion is about DEATH.. about after-life – not about LIVING!! And that every religion insists that one should suffer and get rid of all possessions in order to obtain a better afterlife – he reveals how we are being manipulated – miserable and unhappy people will resign themselves to work and slavery… happy people who want to enjoy life will not. It is a common perception that work shouldn’t be fun….that work shouldn’t be pleasure… that is a brilliant example how we are being mentally and socially engineered to become this dumb cattle who will just go through life hoping that there is something better after.

Osho offers sensible and practical solution to the issue – Marx strongly believed that only a Revolution – an effort of a collective group of people can change the world, Orwell proved him wrong that any group of people is powerless and cannot change anything. Osho exclaims the obvious and practical: the world can only change if enough of us change our perceptions and thinking. Each of us individually and alone. It is almost impossible – but it is still the ONLY solution and the only chance there is. And a lot of people are waking up to this truth again… and this economical crisis is actually a “blessing in disguise” – because it made a lot of people think about Capitalism and their own lives – totally wasted in order to fill pockets of few Executives. It also helped a lot of people to realize that amassing possessions and professional Ego-trips do not improve one’s “quality of life” one bit.

Marx: We can only succeed if we pull together and fight
Orwell: It’s hopeless. We are better off doing nothing
Osho: Meditation is the most productive way of doing nothing