For World Peace and Permanent Economic Security for the Human Family.

All over the world capitalists try to reduce workers’ wages as the most direct way of increasing their profits. International competition and the mobility of capital have made this “cost-cutting” more ferocious. 

For several decades the world’s capacity to produce food, for instance, has far exceeded the entire human population’s need for nourishment. Yet the stockpiles of unused foodstuffs pile up unsold each year in producing nations while somewhere else in the world hundreds of millions of others are malnourished, if not actually starving to death. The paradox is explained away easily enough in market terms. Indeed, the market insists that feeding impoverished people would be harmful to them, indulging their backwardness and postponing their eventual self-sufficiency. That answer may satisfy the marketplace, but for humanity it constitutes another great, unanswered social question. Capitalism, for all its wondrous creativity and wealth, has not yet found a way to clothe the poor and feed the hungry unless they can pay for it. Capitalism is not about freedom; it’s about profits and costs. Socialism has come to be a dirty word. But it’s only once we establish a socialist society of production for use not profit that nobody will have to pay for travel, heating, food or water. It you are opposed to a system of society where the market plays no role and there is free access to goods and services

Socialism presupposes an abundance of goods so great that society could distribute them without payment and thus establish social equality, in this way social distinctions and money would ‘wither away’. A socialist society  needs no governmental coercion; and so the state, that machine of coercion, would also wither away. In order to have the label of socialism the ideas of equality, of a money-free economy, and of the withering away of the state has to prevail. ‘According to needs’ is the sole formula for equality. That equality would be possible only after the supply of goods and services had become abundant. Ours is not an age in which it is enough for a small élite of technicians to possess technological secrets in order to develop the productive capacities of society. This is an age when many millions of workers, have to be skilled, trained, taught, educated, in order that the advance should become possible. What is involved is a thorough upheaval of society in every field of its life.

Under capitalism the workers are wage slaves, slaves of the bosses. The bosses run the factories in order to maximise profits. This means that they pay workers as little as possible, that they do not hesitate to maintain unsafe working conditions to save a buck, and that poor quality products are purposely produced in order to increase profits. History has shown that these conditions are always present under capitalism, and cannot be eliminated as long as there is boss rule of the country (i.e., the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie). A capitalist has to exploit his workers in order to survive as a capitalist. One of the most important contributions that Karl Marx made to socialist ideology was his description of the relationship between the economy of a country and the nature of its government. In a capitalist state the government must necessarily be run by and for the capitalists. It is meaningless to talk about socialism without discussing the class nature of the State.

With people working together to satisfy needs, there is no question that an abundant society could be built quite quickly. Then the need for manpower would diminish, the remnants of capitalist ideology could be wiped out and the society could function guided by the principle, “From each according to ability, to each according to needs”.

It is clear that the working class is the only social force to which humanity can turn to create a pathway through the chaos and anarchy of capitalism. The working class cannot brings its curative capacity to bear upon the situation. Go beyond the demands for freedom under capitalism. If you’re interested in FREE ACCESS FOR ALL to goods and services, then it’s time to go beyond pleading.