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[Victus Mortium]

Hello, well-educated fellow communists. I came upon an idea the other day, and was wondering your thoughts/contributions. I very much wish to write a single-page paper, short and concise, that has a complete explanation of why one should become a communist (perhaps written well enough to convince those who are around me). I see this working by having everyone read the paper and editing parts of it (or big chunks of it) and then submitting their contributions. When I have changed the paper (it will be on my second post) please delete your used contribution to make room for new contributions. All input would be appreciated.

[Victus Mortium]

The Fundamentals of Communism

The means of production are the combination of the subject of labour and the means of labour. The subject of labour is the thing that human work is used to change. The means of labour are the things that the worker uses to aid his work on the subject of labour.

(Subject of labour – raw materials and final product, car in a carwash, mind of a student in a school
Means of labour – Machines and land and factory, hoses and water and lot, desk and book and school)

In capitalist society, there are two dominant classes that are waging a class war. The two classes are the workers and the capitalists. The capitalists own the means of production and employ the workers to create for them a profit, while the workers own no means of production and must then work for the capitalists in order to make a living. The workers are hired by the capitalist to produce some good or service. This good or service then becomes the property of the capitalist (because he owns the means of production and therefore the final product), who sells it for a given amount of money. Part of this money pays the workers, part of it pays for production costs, and the rest is kept for the capitalist in the form of profit. The capitalist can earn money by selling the products of his workers’ labour, without doing any work himself, or he can take money in excess of what he worked for. The value of those sold products was created through the work of the workers; therefore the capitalist, by gaining more wealth than he worked for, is causing someone else to not receive the full wealth created by their own work. The capitalist then makes his profit by exploiting the workers. In this way, capitalists trying to exploit the workers and the workers trying to resist exploitation, class warfare can easily be seen.

In the most recently developed stage of capitalism, an economic imperialism bribes a portion of the workers of the capitalist countries to favor capitalism. The national businesses, upon completing an essential monopoly over the country, need somewhere else to expand so that they can increase profits even more, and need to stifle the cries of outrage from the workers in their country about the exploitation they see. There is one way that they can accomplish both goals: economic imperialism of foreign nations. In this way, the national businesses would become international. They would place the majority of their factories in undeveloped countries, allowing for them to sell goods and services in their capitalist country at low prices while still making a superprofit. This allows some of the workers of the home country to be effectively bribed into capitalism, because the workers of the capitalist countries can now achieve a descent standard of living while not seeing the exploitation and oppression of their fellow foreign working class.

How much is each worker’s work worth to the capitalist? It is the minimum that he can pay the worker that will keep him living a bare existence. The purpose of his life is to increase the profit of the capitalist, and he is only allowed to do so as long as it is in the interest of the capitalist who rules him. The existence of the capitalist demands the existence of the abused worker; and the abused worker will always slave away for the capitalist as long as the capitalist exists. This veiled slavery (Wage Slavery) that has arisen under the cleverly disguised name of capitalism is what communists seek to end.

In capitalist society, the workers are forced to make the capitalist richer, surviving on a meager portion of their product, while the capitalist takes his profit (which he stole from the worker) and uses it to add to and gather together more work for the workers. This is a result of the fact that in capitalism, work is converted into a power that can (and of course, will be) manipulated and exploited by an individual. This individual power is gained through the private domination of the means of production, through private property. The communists believe that the labour of society should no longer be able to be converted into a power that can be manipulated by any individual. The power resulting from labour can no longer be private it must be common and available to all. This would be the common power of all, gained through the common domination of the means of production, through common property.

So this is the objective of the communist: the abolition of private property, in favor of common property.

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For whom do intend to write this paper? Working folk? Everyone?

[Victus Mortium]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27, 2007 06:48 pm
For whom do intend to write this paper? Working folk? Everyone?
Preferably everyone, including working folk.