In a funny twist on the anti-Capitalism debate, Bhairavi Desai was a presenter at the Brecht Forum’s 29th Annual Intensive Introduction to Marxism on July 13, 2007, that they were charging about $95 per person for the average worker to attend.
Not sure about most people, but $95 is hard to make for the average person, and even harder for most of the people who Desai claims to represent – the taxi driver.
The class she gave was introduced by suggesting that capitalism is part of the destructive waves that “mark our times and even threaten life on this planet”. It further suggests that the “complicity of capitalism in perpetuating these ills.”
Desai then introduces the class to Karl Marx' revolutionary critique of capitalism. Desai does this as she inked a secret deal with the TLC to fund her activities lavishly off the backs of the very workers Marx wanted to protect. Taking six cents, $600 dollars per year per driver, for a fund that is only useful to the Taxi Workers Alliance and its CEO is exactly the problem that workers should not have to face.
Under the guise of defending them from the evil capitalists, Desai has subtly ripped them off in a manner that is so egregiously deceptive. She represents the very image of what she claims to detest.
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