The Dismal Science

 

Marxism 101:

Everyone gets a seat
at the banquet table

Portions will be moderated

but all will be satiated

to consume what they need

Now let's do Capitalism:

Though few are invited
and even less will be served

They tell these poor
excluded orphans
to soften the inequity
about the economic necessity
of respecting scarcity

Supply and demand
thrust down their iron boot
on the throat 
of the deprived damned
as they cruelly dangle

the proverbial carrot

of upward mobility

under the bloody noses

from we serfs

forever toiling below

At least we can take

a smidgen of solace

that the day will come

when our oppressed class 

reaches critical mass

and collectively

will rise up

to topple the smug aristocrats

on their gilded asses