Summary
The barbarity of global capitalism has left blood on the blade of the ultra-high net worth individuals --- a blade that is silently but viciously wielded to reap violence on working people and those who are forced to live in poverty.
Extreme inequality corrupts the political process and hampers economic growth. It exacerbates gender inequality and causes a range of dire health and social problems. It throttles social mobility, keeping some families poor for generations while others are left year after year to enjoy grotesque privilege.
Extreme inequality fuels crime, violent conflicts, global climate deprecation and world wars. These caustic consequences affect us all, but the most severe impact is considerably worse for the poorest people on the globe.
As the World Socialist Website so astutely noted:
"At the highest level of the capitalist ruling elite, there are those who understand full well that their system has entered into a crisis that can end in only two ways: either the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the expropriation of the tiny minority of billionaires and corporate bosses by the working class; or a counterrevolutionary bloodbath of such proportions that it would make the crimes of imperialism in the twentieth century pale by comparison ((http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/12/06/pers-d06.html).
The ruling classes of the world understand their precarious position of privilege and wealth and are now actively amassing weapons of mass destruction, assembling global armies of police and increasing their attacks on democratic rights in an effort to preserve their hierarchies, mammon and privileges.
While these uber-rich accumulate ever more powerful weapons of war, from Spain to South Africa and from Peru to Pakistan, people all over the globe are continuing to demand a world that is more reasonable, just, free of violence and ultimately fairer.
They understand that we cannot submit ourselves to the savage scrim of poverty and grayness, shutting away justice and the stars of equality and night.
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