Discussion
of the Pay-the-Rich Economy and How to Overcome It
The Aim of the Working Class Movement
In the rush
of governments to "reopen the economy" on behalf
of the ruling elite,
dictatorial measures are being imposed to stop
workers from
implementing the lessons learned during the fight
against the pandemic.
The ruling oligarchs demand a return to business
as usual even though
the status quo has proved unsustainable in
practice. Working people
have discovered that if a society fit for human
existence is to be
built then business as usual within the old status
quo must be
rejected. The experience of the people before and
in particular during
the pandemic leads inexorably to such a
conclusion.
The
defining moment we are passing through today is
the collective
recognition that economic, political and social
affairs as constituted
do not allow members of society to solve the
problems they face and to
build a new pro-social way of life that favours
them. The militant and
responsible stand of the workers and their
organizations not only
affirms the growing movement against the
decades-old anti-social
offensive, it poses the issue of what aim the
movement should have. The
working class has the social responsibility to
define clearly its aim
to create a society fit for human beings and to
lead the entire people
to achieve the aim as a nation-building project
they embrace as their
own. Such a society of necessity respects the
rights of all by virtue
of all being bona fide full and equal members of
the polity and meets
their needs at a level of existence achieved
through the development of
the modern productive forces and scientific
technique.
The
fulfilment of the aim of the movement to build the
New requires working
people themselves finding solutions to the
problems life is posing:
- to defend themselves against the current
attacks on their
rights and their well-being and on society itself;
-
to work out practical ways which mobilize the
broad section of workers
to hold governments and employers to account so as
to attain control
over the decisions that affect their lives;
- to
hold forums where workers speak in their own name
and establish
reference points which serve to provide them with
orientation;
- to ensure the state and governments fulfil
their
responsibilities to meet the needs of the people;
and
-
to put forward their own agenda to humanize the
social and natural
environment and ensure its realization.
 The ruling
oligarchy has descended into a clique of the
global rich that runs
roughshod not only over the working people of
Canada but over those
they dominate in alliance with the oligarchs from
the United States of
North American Monopolies. They dominate the world
they control with an
economy based on a mode of production to pay
tribute to the rich and
serve their political power and privilege. The
current mode of
production to pay the rich gives rise to recurring
economic crises and
war.
The aim of the economy to pay the rich renders
it incapable of mobilizing its tremendous
productive powers to solve
the problems the people and Mother Earth face. The
working people are
charged with the task of bringing into being a new
mode of production
with a new aim to serve the people, to humanize
the social and natural
environment, and to solve national and
international problems without
violence and war. The initial and crucial step in
building the New is
to organize the people to stop paying the rich, to
increase investments
in social programs and to constitute themselves as
an anti-war
government.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 34 - September 12, 2020
Article Link:
Discussion
of the Pay-the-Rich Economy and How to Overcome It: The Aim of the Working Class Movement
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