What would you do if you were in charge?

[jdhoch]

socialism has never been about putting better or more far-sighted people in charge. It has always been about, as Marx put it, the “self-emancipation of the working class”.
What this involves is the mass of working people reorganising society in their own interests – taking control of their workplaces, the products they create and the transport and distribution networks that get the products to where they are needed. It would involve democracy on an unprecedented scale, because without the agreement and cooperation of the majority of workers, nothing would get done. Such an arrangement would for the first time open up the possibility of the enormous productive capacity of society being put towards actually meeting people’s needs.


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http://www.systemiccapital.com/what-would-you-do-if-you-were-in-charge/

[honest john's firing squad]

Next time, could you actually post the original article (http://www.sa.org.au/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=7253:what-would-you-do-if-you-were-in-charge?&Itemid=403) (from Socialist Alternative Australia) and not a verbatim repost of a repost of yet another verbatim repost of the original, especially not without trying to stimulate any sort of discussion at all.

A quick look around the linked website (especially the link to "A Party of Socialism in the 21st Century") quickly reveals it's nothing but a shit CPUSA front.

[Tim Finnegan]

What would you do if you were in charge?I like to think of myself as unbiased, sohttp://www.throttlejockey.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/SmileySuicide.gif.

[Rooster]

I'm pretty sure that Jdhoch is a spam bot. Or just a spammer.

[NON]

Most people on RevLeft would suggest that every person would be in charge, courtesy of genuine egalitarian democracy.

[Ned Kelly]

Sack myself

[o well this is ok I guess]

It's pretty sad if the CPUSA is actually using spambots.

[Luís Henrique]

Especially when you consider that world hunger could be ended if as little as 4 percent of the 2012 US military budget was put toward feeding people rather than killing them. Or that the cost of providing clean water to the 1.1 billion people currently living without it, and the 3.5 billion denied basic sanitation, is equivalent to the amount spent every three months on the occupation of Iraq. Dismantling the world’s militaries altogether would free up a cool $1.6 trillion, which could no doubt be put to good use feeding and clothing the more than one billion children worldwide currently living in poverty.

That is false, of course. The cost of ending world hunger or providing clean water to those who have no access to it cannot be measured in monetary units, because those are "irrational" proposals from the point of view of capitalism. So, to put things more correctly, the cost of ending world hunger and/or providing free access to clean water to everybody includes the dismantlement of the capitalist mode of production. It is priceless, and Credicard cannot pay for it.

Luís Henrique