- Capitalism and Alternatives -

profit - effectively stolen

Posted by: Red Deathy ( The Red Deathy Party, Uk ) on July 05, 1997 at 23:18:07:

In Reply to: capitalism - the fairest thing we've got posted by Cara Russell on July 05, 1997 at 10:56:45:

> You say capitalism isn't fair. It's the fairest thing we've got, though.
> While a small number of people may be kept from succeding under Capitalism,
> everyone is kept from succeding under socialism. It's equal, but not fair.
> It makes everybody misserable.

How can it be fair- when I sell my Labour, as I wil have to- I will not be paid for the value of my work- but on my value as a commodity. Now, this means, that I will do work, say worth £15 to my employer, but be paid £3 only- my employer getting £12 off me- as a basic theft. Now, accounting for running costs of machinery etc- that could be $10 in pure proffit- £10 effectively stolen from me. Thats where the millions that our rulers have come from, not from their own graft. Most of them did not work hard to achieve their wealth- many are born to it (With the natural advantage of a better standard of eductaion), and they as a class cling on to the wealth. The notion that anyone can succeed is a misnomer, only a few rags to riches stories can happen, and even less will hapen in the future- a plenty of rags to rags will continue to happen. SOcialism is about freeing the wealth of society so that everyone can succeed, not a few. Its bnot about holding back the entrepreneurs, but about liberating the whole of soceity.

"There can be no freedom, even for the masters, among slaves"- Lord Byron. We are the wage slaves of the capitalist rulers, and to vouchsafe their freedom, we must free ourselves...
rED dEATHY


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