Post by rainsborough on Jul 1, 2014 11:12:42 GMT
“PERHAPS IT is a result of more than three decades of counterrevolution. Perhaps it is simply a refusal to take responsibility for our futures. But sometimes it seems as if opposition to capitalism and the consequences of the rule of profit remains just that – opposition. Are we so mired in the trenches that we cannot lift our sights and think not about opposing their plans but proposing our own?
Everywhere we see the result of capitalism’s planning – that is, if grab and run can be dignified as a plan. They want to weaken us, divide us. That’s no reason for us to feel weak or divided. There are hints of an attitude that needs to be cherished, promoted.
Let’s look at our strengths. We live in a world where workers represent the clear majority, and in a country with the world’s sixth-largest economy. We are literate, educated, cultured. We have a skilled workforce, and inhabit an island sitting on centuries-worth of coal and gas surrounded by a sea of fish. We have a proud history of fighting to win, and we know how to run our country.
So why should we believe that only capitalists can rule, or that Britain is so small and insignificant that it must let the European Union negotiate all our trade agreements, for example?
To use a phrase from the Communist Manifesto of 1848, we have a world to win. So let’s start thinking and talking about how we will win it.” (www.workers.org.uk Issue 182, July 2014)
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Interesting they make a good point for discussion. My personal thought is that much of the problem is due to education. We have been educated by the state to think like the state, therefore we believe that capitalism is the only way because we are educated to think that. The working class has been educated to the point that it no longer believes itself to be working class, rather a kind of new middle class, that the working class was something that belonged to our grandfathers and has little relevance in todays modern world.
Everywhere we see the result of capitalism’s planning – that is, if grab and run can be dignified as a plan. They want to weaken us, divide us. That’s no reason for us to feel weak or divided. There are hints of an attitude that needs to be cherished, promoted.
Let’s look at our strengths. We live in a world where workers represent the clear majority, and in a country with the world’s sixth-largest economy. We are literate, educated, cultured. We have a skilled workforce, and inhabit an island sitting on centuries-worth of coal and gas surrounded by a sea of fish. We have a proud history of fighting to win, and we know how to run our country.
So why should we believe that only capitalists can rule, or that Britain is so small and insignificant that it must let the European Union negotiate all our trade agreements, for example?
To use a phrase from the Communist Manifesto of 1848, we have a world to win. So let’s start thinking and talking about how we will win it.” (www.workers.org.uk Issue 182, July 2014)
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Interesting they make a good point for discussion. My personal thought is that much of the problem is due to education. We have been educated by the state to think like the state, therefore we believe that capitalism is the only way because we are educated to think that. The working class has been educated to the point that it no longer believes itself to be working class, rather a kind of new middle class, that the working class was something that belonged to our grandfathers and has little relevance in todays modern world.
