tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post5868690706710368087..comments2024-03-22T19:52:46.571+00:00Comments on SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: The Price of a LettucePoetry Coalshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514953133244910986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-6916198499815650662015-04-16T05:19:47.796+00:002015-04-16T05:19:47.796+00:00Having just reread John Steinbeck's 'Grape...Having just reread John Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath' (highly recommended) this account of current day conditions for field workers replays the conditions he wrote about in the US almost a century ago when large agricultural businesses were forcing small farmers in the midwest from their holdings and thousands, losing their homes and livelihoods had to flee their area. They flocked to California with hopes of working for a livable wage as fruit pickers or other work on the land. They found conditions as described in Spain, inadequate living areas, wages insufficient to support a family, even with all working, wages withheld and wage reductions or eviction in favour of those in even more dire straits arriving daily to take their place. <br />This is how capitalism worked, continues to work, and will go on working - against the working class and for the capitalist class, until and unless we of the working class collectively decide to take things into our own hands and overturn the system as a whole in favour of socialism.Janet Surmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05185354285574590622noreply@blogger.com