Once
again we are deluged with the hypocritical cant and humbug that
governments and corporations can change and create a sustainable
world. Politicians and CEOs mouth the meaningless platitudes. What
are the prospects of a happy future for people? What room is there in
capitalism for peace and well-being when the prosperity of one
depends upon the ruin for another? What have the people to look
forward to, we ask again? Can nothing be done to stem the waste of
human live and destruction of nature? The very first step is to
clear the befogged and befooled minds of the people of every
capitalist notion. Expose the capitalist as the liar, the sociopath
and bully he truly is. The only hope is to abolish wage slavery,
root, branch and twig, and to take control of the things that are
necessary for the lives, comfort, well-being, and happiness of those
who we hold dear. Robbed of everything, we stand at the door to the
future. We have a world to win.
Capitalists
live in great splendour by exploiting the working class through the
daily robbery of the enormous wealth the workers produce. In contrast
to this, intense exploitation, oppression, poverty and misery
characterise the lives of the working class. The buying and selling
of human labour power as a commodity and the production of
commodities for profit are among the fundamental features of
capitalism. The working class is made up of those who are deprived of
the ownership of the means of production and therefore are forced to
sell their labour power as a commodity to the capitalist class. The
working class participates directly in production, transportation,
communication, service, agriculture, and commerce. It is the class
which creates the wealth of society and from which the capitalists
extract surplus value. The ranks of the working class also encompass
the reserve army of unemployed, including old and disabled workers
and semi-permanently and permanently unemployed workers forced to
live on welfare.
Marx
in Wages,
Price and Profit, says:
“To clamour for equal
or even equitable retribution on
the basis of the wages system is the same as to clamour for freedom
on
the basis of the slavery system. What you think just or equitable is
out of the question.”
We
socialists are engaged in a movement which regards both the poor and
most crime as the products of an iniquitous system of robbery of
which both aristocrats and the bourgeoisie stand guilty. All
wars now waged, under whatever pretences, are really wars for the
great prizes in the world-market.
For
as long as anyone can remember, the ruling class have paraded one
political representative after another before the people promising a
life of peace and prosperity while they subject hundreds of millions
around the world to pillage and plunder from one end of the globe to
another. Their whole system is one of legalised robbery and murder.
The history of humanity shows that there is a path to travel–the
path which the exploited and oppressed in every society sooner or
later takes, the way forward, the path of resistance against and the
revolutionary overthrow of their oppressors. Revolution is the only
means to prevent war and hunger.
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