The Origin Of Poverty

Once upon a time, there was a wise old man reading from an ancient book explaining the origin of poverty to children. He told them a complex story with various gods and deities to explain why people were poor. In the middle of this, The Jade Chairman walked into the room and stopped him. He passed out copies of socialist theory and explained that poverty must be understood within the context of class struggle, or it is anti-proletariat and only exists to justify bourgeois systems. He explained to them the economic systems the world had, but few could understand, and even less could make the connection to class oppression. Those who did went on to become revolutionaries.Since then, poverty has been understood as something man-made, and not inherent to reality.