"The comfort of
the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor" - Voltaire
Why should workers, who produce all the wealth in the world
be denied the right to go where they please to engage in economic activity, or
be restricted in their movements, while the parasite capitalist class can
export their capital or exploit workers in wealth making opportunities for
their self-enrichment, anywhere they damn well please without let or hindrance?
Why should workers on benefits (reserve army of wage-enslaved labour for future
exploitation by the capitalist class) have to jump through bureaucratic red-taped
hoops, for the basic human need of a place to live, while the capitalist
parasite class can have luxury homes all over the world? Why should the world’s
workers, who produce all of the wealth, have to put up with inferior housing,
while the leeching class live in mansions? Immigration is hardly the reason why
governments, Labour and Tory stopping building council houses and encouraging
their sale, with no 'like for like' new builds.
Immigrants are not the cause of the housing crisis. They suffer the
consequences just the same as we all do. The problem is capitalism's production
for sale with private, corporate and state ownership of resources by the
minority global and national capitalist parasite class. Food, housing, heating
and clothing could be freely available as tap water used to be in a sane,
democratic, production for use, free access, commonly owned post-capitalist
society. We should not need to afford
housing. It is a human need and should be a right.
The immigrant workers are not scabs. It is the system of
capitalist production that produces unemployment, homelessness, destitution and
crumbling health services, – not workers, be they ’indigenous’ or foreign. The
bosses hope to keep the worst-off sections of workers fighting with each other
over shrinking pieces of a small pie instead of uniting to fight for a decent
life for all. Workers have no country. We have a world to win. Every country
now is part of an integrated global economy and class structure. It is the
capitalist class's country and the capitalist class's world. Before anything
constructive can be done, capitalism must go and, with it, the artificial
division of the world into separate, competing states. This leads inevitably to
war, when the capitalist parasitic class thieves fall out. (Business by other
means). War and poverty are inevitable concomitants of capitalism. We need to
abolish the out-moded and old-fashioned division of the world into
nation-states. Instead we need to cooperate on a world basis to meet our material
needs and energy requirements. Capitalism must go and workers must make it go.
A plague on all parties who wish to retain capitalism. Only workers themselves
can bring to fruition the post-capitalist revolution of free-access, delegated
democracy, production for use, a price-free, wageless, moneyless, society.
Business is not 'people friendly'. Real socialism will do away with the
business of exploiting workers in return for a wage or salary and channeling
profits to the few.
Socialism should be hostile to all the parties of
capitalism, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Tartan or whatever flag they drape over
their wage-slavery administration exploitative activities. Capitalism cannot be
reformed. It comes into the world oozing blood form every pore. Dissolve all
government 'over' you and elect yourselves into common ownership and democratic
control over all the means and instruments for producing and distributing
wealth. Don't whinge that life is not fair. Instead organise with fellow
workers worldwide for the overthrow the capitalist system before we sleep-walk
into the next world war. There will be no government over people in the
post-capitalist commonly owned world. This is an essential feature of minority
ownership in capitalist class society. In a classless, commonly owned society,
government ceases to exist as an oppressive necessity, loses this feature and
becomes an administration of resources. People will organise wealth production
and distribution themselves, locally, regionally and globally. In a real
delegatory democracy rather than a representative government on behalf of a
ruling elites. All wealth will spring, as it does presently, from labour. The
difference will be as it is a production for use society, utilising the
technological potential capacity of the present, to produce a superabundance of
necessities, instead of rationing it, stifling production through the market
necessity to profit for a few. There will be no means of exchange as markets
cease to exist, when all wealth is owned in common.
The socialist alternative to the profit system is:
• common ownership:
no individuals or groups of individuals have property rights over the natural
and industrial resources needed for production.
• democratic control:
everybody has an equal say in the way things are run including work, not just
the limited political democracy we have today.
• production for use:
goods and services produced directly to meet people's needs, not for sale on a
market or for profit.
• free access:
all of us have access to what we require to satisfy our needs, not rationed as
today by the size of our pay-cheque or state hand-out.
The lesson in the ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ by Robert Tressell, is we workers need to combine, stop being slavishly
philanthropic and providing the wealth for a parasitic minority employer class,
take all wealth into common ownership and democratic control, abolish the
wages system, waged slavery and establish a free access society.
Capitalists greedis the natural outcome of capital
accumulation, within an intensely competitive system, where war is 'business by
other means'. It has outlived any socially useful function, having developed
the means of production and distribution to its present stage, with an
increasingly educated, wage enslaved class now able to run the system from top
to bottom .
We can proceed to a democratic, socially equal, commonly
owned, post-capitalist society where production is for the use of all, to
satisfy human needs and distribution can be free, without any necessity for
monetary transaction, within a super-abundance of the necessities of life. Housing
to be lived in, food to be eaten, medicine to treat illness rather than as at
present, commodities to be sold for the enrichment of a minority owning class,
with the vast majority rationed in their access by the present wages /salary
/prices system. We only have to remove ownership and control by, corporations, states, private individuals and replace it with common ownership by us all,
with production for use. Then we can proceed immediately to having free access
to the commonly owned wealth thus dispensing with money and all the
paraphernalia which goes with money. Abolish wages and prices. Opt to work for
a post-capitalist, commonly owned, (not private, state or corporation) money-free,
wage slavery-free, free access, production for use, future. You are only 3
salary cheques from a food bank.
Wee Matt
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