My mum is declaredly a communist entrepreneur

[ItalianCommie]

Because i live in a family of almost solely communists, you can imagine the air we breathe among us.

My mum's a small entrepreneur, an old time university professor/member of the Workers Revolutionary Party back when she lived in England, who's founded a language school in North Eastern Italy, in Vicenza. She works nearly 12 hours a day rushing to banks, rushing to get contracts from companies. She's had pretty much enough of the whole god damn thing. You could define her as a 'slave' of the system, even if fundamentally she's a bourgeois.

So the other day, after a hard day's work, she comes back home and says:

"I had a meeting with the accountant this morning. I said to him I want to be the first communist entrepreneur. I told him that I've had it with working under a capitalist system and that I want to work differently because I believe in a different way of things, in a different and alternative society."

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I didn't know what to say. At first I thought that it was just weird. Then I just thought "Whoa, if she really means that, she's my heroine..". But then I tried to think how she could actually put that into practice. So I ask to her how she hoped to do that.

"I don't know. I haven't the faintest idea. All I know is that in one way or another after all these years I just literally feel sick and have had enough of all of this capitalist shit. What's the point of it all? We live in a country, in a world where the rich don't even want to pay taxes foor the good of the people as a whole, when there are billions of people starving and dying of thirst and epidemics around the world. 'Poor them, they have so little money to spend for the people.' Fuck that bourgeois shit. I can't stand to be associated with that rabble anymore. What is it with those people? All I know is that I'm going back to basics, I'd love to be a student again and fight for the Party again. But i can't: I've got to spend the rest of my life paying mortgages. Yet somehow I have to create something good, the good old communist way."

What do you think? Is my mum expressing some Noble Idealism or just some Sheer Desperation? I think maybe both.

[Hit The North]

But i can't: I've got to spend the rest of my life paying mortgages.

That's her first mistake. Why does she? Fuck the mortgage and fuck the system.

BTW, I'm also tired of the capitalist rat race. I could do with a spell of sweeping up in a language school in Vicenza. Got any jobs going?

[Delirium]

i don't see how she could be a "communist entrepreneur" unless she started a business which all of the people who worked there had equal power and equal pay.

[chimx]

maybe it means she is going to start up a new line of che guevara t-shirts for sale.

[JKP]

"I don't know. I haven't the faintest idea."

And she won't; the most a bourgeois can be is a sympathizer. And when push come to shove and her wealth is threatened, I doubt she'd be even that (and that applies to every cappie).

[Lamanov]

Originally posted by Delirium [email protected] 20, 2006 11:01 pm
i don't see how she could be a "communist entrepreneur" unless she started a business which all of the people who worked there had equal power and equal pay.

Not even in that case. The business stays within the capitalist economy and produces commodities for market, that is, it produces values and reproduces capital.

There's no such thing as a "communist business".

[RedKnight]

Freidrich Engels was a buisnessman. He used his profits to help support Karl Marx.

[phoenixoftime]

I suppose she could always go down a Robert Owen-style route; offer equal pay, workplace democracy and put all profits back into the workplace and its community.

[propertyistheft]

When you say that there is no possibility for a communist or socialist business, you are right and wrong. No business that needs to make money can be called communist. Yet some business like akpress are worker run and owned. With everyone making collective decisions. This can be counted a socialist approach. They still take in capital, and sell commodities. So I deduct that you can have a socialistic run company, but not a true communist business.