Workers-Control-Over-Prod
6th March 2013, 01:58
Hey, I looked for an already-existing thread on this issue but couldn't find one that fits.
It's really difficult for me to properly frame an argument against the capitalist system in anything but a rather lengthy conversation. For instance when the local handyman today said how he lost his job, his house because of the housing crash in 2008, was saying how 'Corporations have all this money but don't share it', I felt like I had nothing to say in a quick chat that could advance his (seemingly already basic) class consciousness.
What is missing in this already-reformist-minded worldview of the people, is obviously a scientific education of how Capital works and that it is a system.
Now, at this point I am not sure of the best approach that we Communists should hold in such a time-limited situation: Should we contradict this rather-progressive statement that 'they don't share it [the wealth]' (if yes, with what?), or should we just stand around like I did and spew impotent (at least in my view) facts of the mass wealth accumulated in the hands of the richest families and owners, encourage and concur with such dissent?
I guess I could just give a radical slogan ala 'It's the Capitalist System!' or something like that, but I don't like revealing my opinions without concretely working on justifying them with arguments. Any advice?
It's really difficult for me to properly frame an argument against the capitalist system in anything but a rather lengthy conversation. For instance when the local handyman today said how he lost his job, his house because of the housing crash in 2008, was saying how 'Corporations have all this money but don't share it', I felt like I had nothing to say in a quick chat that could advance his (seemingly already basic) class consciousness.
What is missing in this already-reformist-minded worldview of the people, is obviously a scientific education of how Capital works and that it is a system.
Now, at this point I am not sure of the best approach that we Communists should hold in such a time-limited situation: Should we contradict this rather-progressive statement that 'they don't share it [the wealth]' (if yes, with what?), or should we just stand around like I did and spew impotent (at least in my view) facts of the mass wealth accumulated in the hands of the richest families and owners, encourage and concur with such dissent?
I guess I could just give a radical slogan ala 'It's the Capitalist System!' or something like that, but I don't like revealing my opinions without concretely working on justifying them with arguments. Any advice?