Discussion on How to Fund Social
Programs
and Other Economic Issues
Part One -- The Necessity
for a Motive of
Production and Work Consistent with the
Modern Social Conditions
Where does the money come from for social programs
and
public services? We are told it comes from the public purse yet
that
explains nothing and is akin to saying food comes from the
supermarket.
Working people recognize clearly that governments
have
no trouble finding money to pay the rich but say no money can be
found
to pay for social programs and public services and to guarantee
the
rights people have by virtue of being human.
Governments, workers and private enterprises all
make
claims on the value the working class produces. How much those
claims
should be and where the value goes clearly relate to who
decides.
For example, in Ontario, the Ford government is
intensifying the anti-social offensive. This relates to who
decides the
claims on the value workers produce and where the value should
go. How
then do the people find and enforce an alternative to the
anti-social
offensive where the people can decide and enforce where to invest
the
claims on the value workers produce.
The Motivation for Production and Work
To find an alternative to the anti-social
offensive and
who presently claims the value workers produce and decides where
the
value should be invested, the people should first focus on the
motivation for production and work. Why do we work? What is the
purpose
regarding the development of the means of production and articles
of
consumption and the modern infrastructure? According to the
outlook and
motivation of the rich, the drive to produce those means of
production
and articles of consumption would be reduced if the drive for
individual wealth and competition amongst companies for the value
workers produce were replaced with another motivation and
outlook.
 The Marxist-Leninists
have
a different view on the matter. They think that the drive to be
rich
and having the economy divided up into competing parts can only
carry
an economy and society so far. At a certain point, what has
developed
so far needs new social forms and an outlook to resolve the
problems
that have accumulated. New social
forms, outlook and motivation have to be created consistent with
the
developed economy and social conditions, especially the massive
means
of production, articles of consumption and infrastructure that
have
come into being.
Most innovation these days comes from scientists
and
others working within large corporations, the universities and
the
military. A few are singled out for acclaim and awarded riches
but the
effort really arises collectively through what society has
already
developed. In the present social conditions, advance arising from
those
collective
institutions can either be blocked or accepted depending on
whether the
innovation serves the narrow private interests of a particular
company
in control within a darkening atmosphere of global competition
and war
preparations.
In addition to this, solving problems in the
social and
political fields and the natural environment and how to guarantee
the
rights that belong to people by virtue of being human do not form
part
of the motive to be rich. The solutions to those problems have to
be
found with a new motivation and outlook consistent with the
modern
social
conditions. Those solutions require great collective efforts from
the
working class in general where no individual is going to become
super
rich but society itself in its ensemble will be enriched. Workers
in
general have to see in practice that their efforts will reward
themselves personally to have a better and more secure life, as
well as
assist their
peers, collectives and economy and give them assurance that
society is
advancing and prospering in an atmosphere of unity without
threats of
war and that solutions can be found to the pressing problems in
the
social and political fields and natural environment and to
guarantee
the rights of all.
This article was published in
Number 4 - February 7, 2019
Article Link:
Discussion on How to Fund Social
Programs
and Other Economic Issues: Part One -- The Necessity
for a Motive of
Production and Work Consistent with the
Modern Social Conditions
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