Class Struggle in a Thousand Words by Photographer Luis Armendariz

The pictures displayed above depict a converging imagery representative of one paramount concept, the perennial struggle of the working class in breaking free of an unfair class/caste slavery status.  Many of whom are coerced by modern capitalistic practices into following a predetermined path towards wage slavery.  In most cases severe forms of unrestrained capitalism, such the one present in Mexico before the revolution and socialist reforms took place, and severe forms of socialism, such the one present in eastern European countries, have paralyzed the labor markets, created sticky prices, centralized wealth into the hands of a few private or public plutocrats and has unfolded in severe modes of poverty and vicious cycles.  The photo's concept and execution was effected in whole by  Luis Armendariz, a professional photographer that has seen and palpated poverty with his own eyes and hands; by extension, understands it with profound sensibility.