In Reply to: Re: What you should do!!! posted by Max Tart on December 12, 1996 at 14:34:29:
> Look Ashely of Austrailia,I've read & agreed with Siamak's reply
> If we would do the things you are wanting to do, we would
> be called socilist and you see how that system works in Russia.Apart from being unable to spell 'socialist' you obviously have no
understanding of what it means. Socialism is a system whereby society is
organised for the benefit of the vast majority, where the means of
production are owned and controlled by the working class. Socialism is not
about having a tiny ruling minority in control. In Russia the working class
held real power for only a few short years after the October revolution.
After the civil war and the rise of Stalin Russian society was run by a
small capitalist class, the party bureaucracy, for their interests, not for
the benefits of all. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the former states
have been opened up to free market capitalism (as opposed to the state
capitalism of before) which has manifestly shown itself to be even worse at
providing for the populace any decent living standards than the brutal and
oppressive Communist regime that preceeded it. And under the 'new' free
market conditions McDonalds is doing quite nicely thank you very much.> Everyone can not be paid the same and hard work does result in raises.
In the UK the average value of goods produced is ú70,000 a year. The average
wage is about ú14,000 a year. That's a lot of surplus value going into the
pockets of the rich. Room for some equitable distribution maybe?> You must have had some real poor employers to be so bitter.
Wrong. The employers who stuff their pockets by keeping wages and conditions
down and profits high are the ones who succeed. The interests of all employers
are directly opposed to the interests of their employees. From the ruling
classes point of view these are the 'good' employers.> The people who cry about working conditions and low pay are
> usually the lazy people.I, and millions of others, believe that it is the massively overpaid heads
of industry who sit around doing two day working weeks while the rest of us
slave for 48 hours a week to pay their fat slaries are the lazy ones. Why
don't you compare the work done by a 16 year old burger flipper or a nurse
to that done by, say, the chief executives of McDonalds or the heads of the
privatised public utilities in the UK? Try some simple maths with their
respective rates of pay and then try and justify how one fat executive can
be worth 200 nurses.There is only one solution amd it doesn't involve bowing and scraping to
the bosses or their hired minions in the middle classes.
None.