Thursday, July 24, 2008

Them and Us

Pensioners against the unemployed. Disabled against single mothers. One parent families against the low-waged. Each against each other and none against the real cause of our problems, the profit system from which the wealthy benefit.

What do you think you are doing? What do you think they are doing? You are letting the Board of Directors of British Capital PLC set you one against the other.

Do you think the wealthy care about rises in energy prices, rises in he price of food, fuel prices, house price rises or falls? Think again! They are inured against them all.

By getting us, the wealth producers, or possible wealth producers, arguing against each other, they are taking the emphasis away from the real cause of our problems, our problems as a working class. You may think that this is a bit old fashioned. Talking about class.

Well, the wealthy have no reason to talk about it, we do their arguing for them, against each other. While we slag each other off, they live in unalloyed luxury. Not worrying about the prices of food, housing, fuel, their children's futures, all the things that we, who produce everything in society, from a pin to a computer, worry about.

They live in a different world, their world is not ours. Whosoever tries to tell us that our lives are the same as theirs, is talking a load of crap, no punches pulled.

Whosoever tries to tell us that, "we have something in common" is talking rubbish. Whosoever tries to tell you "we are all in it together, as a nation", "that we must stick together", talks from a position of comfort.

Why is it always we who must always accept less, in wages or in comfort for ourselves or our children? You guessed it, the wealthy and their political representatives tell us this.

Whether Labour, Tory or Liberal, this has always been their battle cry.

This is "our world" as much as theirs. We have as much right to the good things in life as they do. What we do not have is ownership and control over the means of ensuring this. Only when we, as a human race, own and control the means of living will we have a sane and rational society, a sane and rational world. Only then will we be able to face the problems facing us and find solutions not based on the base idea of profit before everything else, as is the case today, but on the basis of common humanity.

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