A New Direction for the Economy
If the issue
of the method or means of subsistence is not
understood, the workers'
movement and its aim remain vague without
sharpness and a confident
direction. This final stage of the transition from
petty to industrial
mass production is not the same as before in the
early period of the
transition with what was called laissez-faire
capitalism. Similarities exist but the situation
has changed
considerably. As long as this pay-the-rich means
of creating a
subsistence for people is not radically
challenged, nothing can be
solved and no forward progress for the workers'
movement and society
can be sustained.
Within this discussion, workers
should think about what they would establish as
the means of
subsistence. The starting point is to stop paying
the rich and increase
investments in social programs to guarantee the
rights of all, to have
the collective will of the society expressed in
the form of socialist
planning and control by the working people over
those affairs that
affect their lives. Collectively, the society
would march forward and
in the way of the old proverb would learn warfare
through warfare.
 Within the
situation, the workers put forward their own
demands. The demands are
to stop paying the rich, to stop all public
borrowing from private
lenders, to stop handouts to the rich and their
enterprises, and to
increase investments in social programs in
education, health, welfare,
culture and recreation in particular for the
youth. With this start, a
rupture with the Old can be made and a new
direction embraced. The
immense social product available from the modern
means of production
can be put to use to solve society's problems and
guarantee the
well-being and rights of the people and the
extended reproduction of
the economy. Without the starting point to stop
paying the rich, no
change in the direction of the economy can be
sustained.
Whenever
a crisis occurs, as is the case at the present
time, it becomes clear
that either the working people move towards
creating a higher form of
society, or they continue to face one disaster
after another. Workers
have to demand a radical rupture from the past and
that rupture is
presented in the slogan "Stop Paying the Rich!"
While
all of this points to the necessity for the
working class to establish
its own political aim, the attempt is made, once
again, to keep it
chained to the political aim of this or that party
with aims to serve
private interests. This capitulation to the
parties of the rich flies
in the face of the experience of all Canadians,
which is that whether a
party's agenda is touted as right-wing or
left-wing, it serves the
corporate elite and old status quo.
The struggle
today is between the forces of the New and the
forces of the Old. The
working class must resolutely take up its own
political aim to end the
situation whereby the rich marginalize it by
diverting its struggle
into electing this or that so-called
representative and party of the
rich oligarchs, no matter what they may call
themselves.
As
the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
steps up its work, its
members and allies are firmly convinced that an
alternative to the
current direction of paying the rich can be found.
Activists are
confident that by consciously participating in
building workers' forums
to exchange views, analyze unfolding events and
set their own
orientation to defend the rights of all, the
program to stop paying the
rich and to increase investments in social
programs will lead to the
establishment of an alternative and open society's
path to
progress.
Join the movement for the New!
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