Towards a Theory of Chocolate Workers as the Vanguard of the Proleteriat

1. Growing numbers of people recognize the social and environmental impacts of eating animal products, and convert to vegetarianism and ultimately veganism.

2. An increasing number of vegans stimulate sharp shifts in the chocolate industry towards dark chocolate. The public realizes that milk-chocolate was an evil corporate swindle whose taste pales in comparison to 55-70% bars.

3. A growing mass conciousness around issues of "fair trade", supported by well-funded liberal NGOs (whose foundation-backers hope to put a slightly human face on globalization), causes significant improvements in the lives of chocolate workers and ultimately sparks unions movements which are successful.

4. Chocolate consumption increases as it makes in-roads into newly prosperous countries (ex. China and other parts of Southeast Asia), vegan chocolate requries more cocoa, and consumers increase their consumption because vegan dark chocolate tastes better.

5. There is either a global depression caused by resource depletion (running out of energy sources, metals, and top soil), or global warming causes chocolate producers to go out of business by destroying their ability to grow cocoa on their land.

6. This puts pressure on corporations who try to reduce the wages of their employees.

7. In the new economic climate, the fair trade corporations disappear as they cannot compete with the larger multinationals.

8. The oppressed chocolate workers rise up and lead the revolution. (Because workers who see a brighter future and have rising expectations, but then have them taken away are more revolutionary than workers who have always been oppressed.)

9. Addicted to chocolate, and faced with the choice of losing their access to chocolate or joining the revolution, the more privileged working class of the industrialized nations join in too.