With Regards to Capitalists, An Open Letter to the World from a US Worker

[Mike Morin]

To the People and the Government(s):


Save, Save, Save...not spend, spend, spend

Save that 1.2 trillion, we're going to need it to start over to participate in a world economy that is based on inclusion, quality of life, humanity, equity, sustainability, and peace.

All the U.S. Government should do regarding the banking and investment situation is honor their deposit insurance "obligations", pay unemployment insurance to displaced workers, and let them and others affected apply for food stamps and SSI.

This dysfunctional Capitalist system needs to be fundamentally rearranged. The suicidal, ecocidal, genocidal, opulent, ostentatious "standard of living" supply side machine based on unabashed greed is failing, and throwing more money at a dysfunctional and inequitable economic system is not only outrageous but is destined to fail.

Let the greedy Capitalist class who thought that they could invest their way to materialism heaven, learn their lesson the hard way and join us that have learned and want to teach a quality of life based on a modest earned income and shared wealth. Let them join the working class and let them mingle.

Let them join us in a unified world socialism. We will welcome them, if they are honest hard-working brothers and sisters with good intentions and love for humankind, all youth and children of the world, and future generations.


Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[ZeroNowhere]

This dysfunctional capitalist system needs to be fundamentally replaced. Unlike is suggested in this reformist and rather unrealistic letter.

[Mike Morin]

By reformed, I met replaced, but I have an unrealistic, admittedly, plan for a peaceful transition to socialism.

What is your realistic revolutionary scheme?

Will we win control of state parliaments all at once or one at a time. Will we do it by popular vote, violent or non-violent coup? All governments at once, or one at a time?

Then what? Will a perfect Communist/socialist/anarchist system magically coalesce and everything will be free because you "claim" to be a worker?

It's easy to make angry comments, putting someone else down. How about a constructive alternative?



For World Unity,

Mike Morin
Peoples Equity Union
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)

[ZeroNowhere]

No, I'm just as non-violent, De Leonism was made by a former law student, goddamnit. It's merely that this relies on the US capitalist government mystically switching class allegiance. And hell, none of those suggestions involve exiting capitalism, merely transforming it into some kind of utopian capitalism through unspecified means. So apparently, the US government suddenly becomes favorable to the working class... And upholds capitalism? And with some vague phraseology about 'a modest earned income and shared wealth', whatever that's supposed to mean. Yes, apparently the capitalist class would become working class... But how the hell is this supposed to happen? Certainly, relying on the capitalist state, who have only ever reformed capitalism for its maintenance, to do so is something of an unrealistic target. But then again, it's admittedly unrealistic, so I don't really see what the point is here.


Then what? Will a perfect Communist/socialist/anarchist system magically coalesce and everything will be free because you "claim" to be a worker?
What.
Anyways, I have the convenience of fitting under the label of De Leonism. (http://www.revleft.com/vb/de-leonismi-t100202/index.html?p=1341927#post1341927) And anyways, what's a 'materialism heaven' in the first place? Also, attacking the character of capitalists is baseless flaming.


All governments at once, or one at a time?
Am I supposed to be Nostradamus, or...?

[Mike Morin]

You may be surprised at how many, who are Capitalists, or concur with the apparent success of Capitalism, especially in the USA (I argue that it had more to do with technolgical "Western Civilzation" raping a virgin landscape), would identify with the heritage and tenets of the "Labor Movement" and those of socialism, if the argument is presented to the audience correctly.

There is a phrase that I made up, it's "the Capitalistization of the Working Class". For example, a propertyless worker works hard and smart and saves enough to start his/her own business. It is more myth than reality, but it has happened, and can still happen (although I would submit to you that in today's USA, it is approaching impossibility). It is also the investment of pension funds.

With regards to my reference to "materialism heaven", what I was referring was the destructive Capitalist statistic "standard of living" which drives people to define happiness by how much they consume, how many things they own, and the ostensible status of those things.

I suggest that we educate folks towards a "quality of life" for all, based on cooperation, rather than "standard of living" based on cut-throat competition.

"Quality of life" includes personal happiness for self, family, friends, neighbors, and all others. It includes ownership opportunities for all and everybuddy having the things they need, including health, healthy and loving relations with family, friends, neighbors, and all the people of the world. It includes peace on earth, and it includes a future for all the children of the world.


The Moslem concept of heaven was material wealth. Not opulence and ostentation, but because Mohammed was a leader of the poor and the oppressed, material wealth meant having the things a family and community needs to be happy. Marx's "dialectical materialism" is a similar concept, I think.

And I'm not suggesting transforming the status quo into a "utopian Capitalism". I differentiate socialism from Capitalism thus:


The difference between socialism and Capitalism is that in Socialism resources are allocated for the social/economic betterment of all people, in Capitalism money is invested for the profit (the financial betterment) of the individual or a relative few (or many, but still relatively few, when United Capitalist States dominate the politics of life and death).


It is not baseless flaming to see and tell of the disgusting opulence and ostentation of the citizens of the United States (Capitalists) ignoring and/or throwing crumbs to the poor amongst them and abroad.



World Unity!



Mike Morin
Peoples Equity Union
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com)