Can poverty be ever ended?

By: Jing Ding

Dr. King’s “letter from Birmingham jail” made me thought about his life and his effort on ending racial segregation and racial discrimination. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing Vietnam War. In reality,Racial segregation was ended, Vietnam War was ended, but poverty is still there…Can poverty be ever ended? My answer is “NO”.

Marxist believe that in order to overcome the fetters of private property the working class must seize political power internationally through a social revolution and expropriate the capitalist classes around the world and place the productive capacities of society into collective ownership. Upon this material foundation classes would be abolished and the material basis for all forms of inequality between humankind would dissolve. China and Soviet Union had proved to the whole world that this theory does not work. Now China is capitalized and Soviet Union was dissolved.

People's intellectual level is different since they were born. Also their family background and political situation is different when they were born. All those factors will define how successful a person can be in the future. It is impossible for everyone to be same successful. There are always some small numbers of people can be leaders, can run successful businesses and most of the others can be followers and the rest of them can’t even follow. Those who can’t follows are those who end up in poverty. Social welfare can't get them out there. Charities can't get them out there. Those efforts only kept them alive and gave peace to the society.

Is there anything we can do to get those people out of poverty? My opinion is that we have already done what we can, they have to pull themselves out by themselves! Because most of them will never try to pull themselves out due to many reasons. So poverty can't never be ended.