SMI²LE - View to the Future

Karl Marx is dead, Rosa Luxemburg is dead, too... However, the color of labour has remained unchanged, it has always been - red. It is a well know fact that the greatest class struggle of the 20th century took place under the red flag. Paul Lafargue, son-in-law and well known activist of Karl Marx, said: “If labour was something good and elevated, rich men would not leave it to the poor.” This was the understanding of “labour” in 19th century and this ideology was carried on to the 20th century. This ideology causes leftist trade union workers to get the feeling of failure, and at the same time it generates ideas about personal advantage. This interpretation of “labour,” at the present time, no longer applies, and those who support this archaic idea, are still to this day linked back to it. So, what is the new color of labour?

If there is one proposition which currently wins the assent of nearly everybody, it is that we need more jobs. "A cure for unemployment" is promised, or earnestly sought, by every Heavy Thinker from Jimmy Carter to the Communist Party USA, from Ronald Reagan to the head of the economics department at the local university, from the Birchers to the New Left.

In the latter half of the 20th Century, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Herold C. Urey (*29th April 1893 in Walkerton, Indiana; † 5th January 1981 in La Jolla, California), proposed an explanation for how that layer of oxygen arose which serves as protection for the whole earth. This classic example of a «feedback effect» has entered scientific history under the name of the «Urey Effect».