All wealth comes from labour. Labour receives a ration back
for subsistence and the rest goes to the parasite capitalist class, who only
bring capital (stolen wealth, dead labour) to the table, when it is deemed profitable
to exploit the worker again and so the cycle continues. Capitalism can't be
reformed to work in any other way and must be replaced by the post- capitalist
society. Socialists don't expect any
political party to do it for them, but rather the task of bringing in
socialism, i.e. a free access society without buying and selling, wage slavery
and with production for use, is the mission of the workers themselves.
It will be for us to take ownership and control of the
wealth of the world into our own hands. We could, together, use the wealth of
the world to meet our mutual needs and grant the true independence of being
able to control our work and our lives in free and voluntary association of
equals. As this is the emancipation of labour from the fetters of wage slavery
with production for use, production doesn't stop until needs are met, as profit
is not a consideration and with free access to the social product, there is no
further need for any means of exchange and money, (a part of the market system)
ceases to be needed. With common ownership of all the means and instruments of
producing and distributing wealth we see the end of vested interests and elite
classes competing and warring over them. A true class less society is the
result.
All capitalist politicians are fakirs, selling panaceas
until the next crisis to keep the wage slaves supporting their rule 'over' the
workers. It doesn't matter if they are allegedly labour, with friendly
pro-worker sound-bites or avowedly conservative in nice or nasty party mode.
Capitalism cannot be reformed, exploitation takes place at the point of
production of workers rationed by wages to access of the social product, so it
is no good blaming the politicians for pretending it can be. Capitalism is
about the immense production of commodities. Workers themselves are turned into
sellers of commodities, via their labour power.
This drives profit. The whole reason for capitalism.
Advanced economies have to continue to create new goods, whether useful or not,
it doesn't matter if they are consumed or end up in landfills, in order to
accumulate even more wealth in the hands of the 5% parasite class.
Capitalism has to be replaced by a free access production
for use. Any reforms which threaten the status quo will be destroyed or
reincorporated into the main infrastructure in profit-friendly relational
functions. Exploitation in capitalism is at the point of production where wage
slavery exists. It is from human labour applied to natural resources that all
wealth proceeds. It is human labour which adds value to this natural wealth, as
it is transformed into commodities for sale on the market.
You have to end the capitalist market system and establish
free access and abolish waged slavery, so we can have production for use within
a sane allocation of resources, which ends the overproduction for sale, in the
pursuit of profits in booms and the slump/glut switching off of production,
before needs are met, in the interest of profit, necessitating the creating of
new commodities, in pursuit of profit, to take up the slack of lost production
and profit earning capacities in the global capitalist economy.
Capitalist market and banking and money systems, is anarchy,
wasteful and unnecessary. The working class are the source of all wealth. The
money system is a part of the market system. This can’t be reformed and has to
be replaced with a post-capitalist commonly owned free access social system
without buying and selling, where production is for use for the satisfaction of
the human needs of a single human species in harmony with nature and the
planet's shared resources, rather than for the rationed sale on a market for
the enrichment of a few percent of a global parasite class. The market leads to
intense economic, political and global competition, war, squandering of
resources, misuse of technology to destroy oppositional resources, a conflict
of human interests for the pursuit of elitist gain, with wealth being produced
in conditions of waged slavery for the majority, essentially to keep the slave
presenting themselves for further exploitation, on pain of poverty, actual or
relative, to satisfy the need for accumulation of profit for the few. Absolutely
insane use of resources. The full charge sheet against the world exchange
economy with regard to the way it forces people to use the world's resources
can now be drawn up. It reads:
(1) That,
although there has been a long-term expansion of productive capacity and oil
output, this has been only a fraction as fast and as extensive and as safe as
technology has made possible.
(2) That,
although in the long run the existing capacity has been more or less fully
used, this has been broken by regular periods of under-use.
(3) That, in
agriculture and in industries faced with declining markets, there has been
deliberate destruction of productive capacity and regular destruction of
wealth.
(4) That millions
and millions of human beings who could have contributed to producing useful
things have been prevented from working at all.
(5) That millions
and millions more human beings have been allowed to work but only to engage in
wasteful exchange and coercive activities.
(6) That the
existing productive capacity has been used to produce considerable amounts of
waste.
These are all serious charges and all of them are proved.
They point to the need for the world's people to recover control over the
productive system by abolishing the exchange economy altogether and replace it
by a society that will allow them to plan the production of wealth in their own
interests and to allocate the products for their own individual and collective
use. Expecting capitalism to reform is the equivalent of a death wish. It is an
impossible dream whereas socialism/communism post capitalism, where the world’s
workers, 95% who not only produce all wealth, but run the system of wage
slavery from top to bottom in the service of the exploiting class, are more
than capable of running a self-regulating sane system of common ownership with
equal free access afforded to all without elites.
We need a revolution in peoples thinking to end this waste.
It is then a simple case of a majority taking into common ownership, (not state
ownership, or private or corporate ownership) all the means and instruments for
creating and distributing wealth by and in the interests of the whole human
family. At a stroke, without the parasitical elites, all the competition which
drives war and wasteful use of technology will be ended and we can make common
cause with our human family and the eco husbandry of the planet's resources
will be the normative state of affairs. That is the function of capitalist
politicians, to get our assent to be 'governed' over in the interests of
business. Experience should have shown us this, a long time ago and capitalism
and its anarchic market system and waged slavery continues from boom to slump
to boom again. We have some responsibility for wanting to believe impossible
things, that governments can make any difference to the boom, slump or market
cycle.
We are not presenting the socialist alternative of a world
without wages as a utopian dream for the century after next. This is practical
now. Socialism is the sensible next step for humankind to take. We have nothing
to lose but our chains. You and others are responsible for the established
order. You and others can withdraw support from politicians of capitalism left,
right, centre. You along with the vast majority can govern yourselves without
any elites. You can do away with the production of commodities including yourself
as a commodity (labour-power) for sale on the market. Politicians of all hues
and colours have a conceited delusion that they can adjust capitalism and fine
tune it to deliver outcomes beneficial for most of society. You should stop
expecting governments to level up the playing fields in society (impossible).
Reforming capitalism (impossible). Managing the economy (impossible).
Capitalism thrives on inequality of access, to keep the real wealth producers
(the working class), working to produce surplus value, for the parasite class
of capitalist, who do not need to work as they can pay to have their interests
managed for them, with the best money can buy, legal systems ,governments and
anything else to protect their dominant interests. Around 5% of the world’s
population live a life of ease and luxury on the backs of the rest of us.
Capitalism can't be reformed and must be replaced.
It is up to us workers worldwide to withdraw our assent to
be governed 'over' in the interests, of a tiny minority parasite class 5% and
withdraw our acceptance of waged slavery to establish a sane post -capitalist
social system. The consent of the majority which the minority needs to keep its
system going. We must unite to change society. You and others the 95% can stop
crawling on your hands and knees to capitalism and refuse their crumbs in
return for the common ownership of the planet. It is well past time for the
workers of the world to grow up and stand on their own two feet. It is long past
time the working class said a plague on all capitalist politicians. Away with
those lick-spittle, two-faced, slave-driver representatives of the rapacious,
blood-soaked capitalist system, despoilers of the planet, impoverishers of the
many.
Rise like Lions after
slumber
In unvanquishable
number—
Shake your chains to
earth like dew
Which in sleep had
fallen on you—
Ye are many—they are
few.
Shelley
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