The working class needs jobs. Capitalists own the means of production; these means require the workers. Are you arguing that some capitalists are good/bad? They all ravage the world and exploit labor as the capitalist system requires.
Not nearly enough.
When you have an economy that isn’t capitalist, you can plan it…and extracting surplus value from workers isn’t necessary. You can automate your industries without destroying the quality of life of the people….in fact, you improve it because people can work less.
It really is that capitalism has exhausted its usefulness and ability to advance society. It is now socialism or barbarism.
Maybe the workers at Toyota, Ford and Honda should take control of these plants. They would run it better without the capitalist leeches squeezing out every ounce of profits into their own pockets.
Exactly, comrade
This is because of all of the individualism that is fostered and perpetuated to keep people vulnerable and afraid. It will eventually reach a tipping point and the working class will fight back.
We literally have nothing left to lose but our chains.
The US working class would have to mobilize serious strike action across the country to win universal healthcare. The capitalists don’t want their private property (companies, businesses) within the field of healthcare socialized. The working class can do it though. When organized and led by a revolutionary program and leadership, the working class can start to call the shots. All workers need to ditch the capitalist parties (dems and republicans) and support class independent parties and mobilize their power outside of the bourgeois political system.
They were successful in 1917. This is worth studying!
The first step is to build a unified movement, rooted in the working class, that builds a revolutionary consciousness.
Leftists in various parties/orgs need to unite around some basic principles and fight together. We need to unite around agreements while we continue to hash out differences for clarity regarding the way forward. Both can happen at the same time.
To not unite around agreements is to be sectarian, and this is castrating the power of the left….in addition to some parties and orgs actively pushing a liberal agenda, doing nothing but helping to build illusions that the bourgeois parties will work in the interest of the working class.
The working class has all the leverage we need…. We literally make the world run with our labor, and the world does not run without it. We do need leadership, but independent of the labor bureaucrats, most of whom sell us out or limits our class struggle. Workers can form their own committees within their unions to start mobilizing their power.
Organize committees in work places and represent as labor. Don’t wait for the union leaders who stifle the power of labor for their own gain any chance they get. The working class needs to take this into our own hands as a class…not as individuals.
The bourgeoisie does not care if the working class dies so long as they are maximizing profits and continuing to expand their ownership.
The dictator and criminal is US imperialism and all of the mini-imperialist countries. The system that demands the type of behavior, and that causes the world to suffer remains fully in tact after this figurehead who is a particularly distasteful ruler is no longer. This isn’t just a Trump problem….as terrible as he is.
Well, it is impossible to work toward communism while trying to appease imperialists who are constantly attacking you - through propaganda, economic embargoes that starve your country, and actual bombs. Revolutions need to continue to spread internationally, and capitalism needs to be defeated globally…only then will we have communism. Workers of the world will finally lose their chains when this happens.
At least the ruling class isn’t hiding behind diplomacy anymore while they rape and pillage the world. They are showing their true colors in their political and economic wars and in their personal behaviors (Epstein).
Exactly. Not only clearer, broader, more ambitious goals, but also a different strategy. Protests allow you to meet people, but refusing labor causes the rulers to respond.
It requires a planned socialized economy so that the robots are programmed to help the masses, not programmed to help protect the private property and endless enrichment of the capitalist class.
To facilitate US Imperialism’s and Israel’s greater domination of the region.
The Prairieland case was an important case for the capitalist state of US Imperialism. It was a litmus test, a threat, to all people who dare criticize and challenge its rule within the belly of the beast. Just like the Iran war, which is about control over the region, and beating back any neo-colonial governments who don’t fall in line with the wishes of US Imperialism….this is the US government waging similar class war at home.
It all depends on property rights and ownership. If few people hoard and control all of the resources and means of production that make the resources like gold valuable, they will continue to profit. Everyone else’s standard of living will continue to plummet in their efforts to control more markets (through wars, embargoes, trade agreements, etc.) and squeeze out the greatest amount of profits from everything and everyone.
Until property relations change, the property-less (and I don’t mean a single family homes….i mean machines and resources that create wealth) will continue to struggle to greater and greater degrees across the world.