tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post5823512187661489354..comments2024-03-22T19:52:46.571+00:00Comments on SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: The "Fourth Industrial Revolution"Poetry Coalshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514953133244910986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-78277357401657199592018-08-20T16:01:42.451+00:002018-08-20T16:01:42.451+00:00For what it's worth I commented on this as bel...For what it's worth I commented on this as below. <br /><br />It is all a question of ownership and control of the means of production and distribution. Presently it is in the hands of an economic, parasitical, exploiting class (1-5% of the global population), whether organised as private, corporate or statist entities or a mixture of all three of those.<br /><br />The real actual wealth producers , who not own and control the means of production and distribution, (90-95% of the global population) are therefore compelled by economic necessity to sell their mental and physical energies for a wage or a salary which is effectively rations merely sufficient to reproduce themselves as waged slaves for future exploiters, thus also reproducing poverty both relative and absolute, as workers also produce surplus value above there waged ration which is where all profit is derived.<br /><br />This wealth produced by the worlds workers torrents up into the pockets to the parasite class and funds, governments ,armies, ideological and repressive state apparatus all designed to maintain the economic dominance of the capitalist class.<br /><br />The outcome of the retention of ownership and control of the means of production an distribution in the hands of a minority parasite class in competition with each other is that the arrival of better technological and informational developments is accompanied by increases in the rate of exploitation of workers retained in production, still relatively impoverished and insecure, in relation to the wealth they collectively produce and the dispersal to service jobs or macjobs, or welfare to work, if 'lucky' for the redundant others.<br /><br />So capitalism having spawned the technology and informational infrastructures necessary for the implementation of a progressive new society is incapable of delivering this as its ethos is always geared to accumulation of profit forthe minority parasitic social class.<br /><br />Only an advanced, post-capitalist, classless,commonly owned , production for use, free access, delegatory democratic society owned and run by us all, locally, regionally and globally, in conditions of real social equality can do this.<br /><br /><br />We need to dissolve the politicians, ( the state being the administrative arm of a ruling class) elect ourselves (no more leaders), abolish the wages system, establish free access to a relative superabundance of wealth which would flow from common ownership and production for use (of utilities not commodities) using the technological and informational structures from developed capitalism and win and run the world ourselves for and by all of the worlds people.<br /><br /><br />Matthew Culberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01698202497017246060noreply@blogger.com