 In defence of Socialism2009-Jan-6 |
I'm driving past my local hospital not too long ago, and noticed they're now charging people to park. This includes visitors or people bringing someone to the hospital to be treated. It's so so wrong that we've came to the point in history, where that's acceptable, where no one complains, and if we do complain, we're ignored. It's wrong that no one cares. I cannot find a way to justify it.
London has a huge homeless population. Some are there because they choose to be. They've somewhat heroically rejected the materialistic World. Others are there because their lives have been plagued from day one, abusive parents, warped minds, leading to drug addictions, a circle of pain that seems unbreakable. Some are there because they're just lazy. Whatever the reasons for being on the street, no one should be left to freeze on a cold Winters night. I don't care where we are as a society, no self important prick has the right to utter "get a fucking job" to the freezing man on the street. No one knows his circumstances, no one knows his background, and yet he's abused, by what seems to be a much more greedy, self important, individualistic, selfish population.
It's a system i'm growing to despise every day. I once heard ex Conservative leader Michael Howard refer to Socialism as a "plague" and I wondered, why is Socialism a plague, and yet he advocates a system in which 50% of the Wealth of the World is concentrated in 2% of the Population? Surely that's a plague worse than Cancer? Socialism mearly wants to take that 50% of the World's wealth, and buy the food needed to feed the Planet. If it's possible (which it is) it should be done! It's disgraceful that it isn't.
No one deserves a better standard of healthcare or education based on how much money they have. It's a preposterous idea that needs to be eradicated from human thought. Money does not make a person more deserving of fundamental human necessities.
Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal is officially Britain's richest man, with a staggering personal wealth of £19bn. I don't know if you can comprehend that. I certainly can't. What I can comprehend, on a humanitarian level, is that whilst Mr Mittal has more money than he could ever possibly use, every few seconds a person dies because he/she cannot afford basic food and water. Is this the system Mr Howard finds so spectacular? If even one person dies of such severe poverty, the system that allows it to happen, is so very wrong.
It's a system that doesn't take into account the future. It goes from Country to Country sucking up all the resources needed to sustain life, as quickly as possible for the sake of a few extra dollars, not caring that future generations are going to be left with a dead World. Forests destroyed for profit. Species of animal destroyed for profit. Mile upon mile of water contaminated so that Coca Cola can profit even more so, at the expense of the people who live there. I cannot morally justify such a system.
Obviously a system that allows the guys at the top to gain a disgusting amount of wealth and therefore power, will mean that no one at the top or aiming for the top is ever going to criticise this system, they will ensure that the masses think the current system is the height of society. I suggest those people who fall for such nonsense, go take a walk around the Sudan, or closer to home, the forgotten areas of England, and America. Let's ask the people who have been failed by the system, whether the system has helped them develop as people, or just shit all over them, in favour of the minority with the business mind.
Instead of buying a brand new Porsche, why doesn't the company boss pay his workers more than minimum wage? If minimum wage wasn't in place, you can bet that most workers would be on as less as possible, regardless of the work they do. If i'm paid £50 a day making tshirts, and the tshirts are selling for £5. Surely I should stop working after 10 have sold? Anything else, and i'm essentially working for free? If I then see my boss go and buy a lovely new yaht, do I not have the right to demand a pay rise?
One of my favourite arguments for the current Economic system, is "it rewards hard work". Does a Premiership footballer work harder than a man cleaning the streets every day? Does Tom Cruise work harder than the man making the bread so you can eat? Let's put the Premiership footballers and Hollywood actors on strike for a month, at the same time as the street cleaners and the food producers, and see what you miss the most. It's the ignorant suggestion that a lawyer working two hours a week, is some how working harder than a cleaner working all day every day. It's a distribution of wealth that is aimed at gaining as much power over others as possible. No one has that right. And it's consuming everything. The poet, is now only a poet for financial gain. Any other reason, would be futile. The Philosophy, is a philosopher for financial gain. Who's going to publish a book that may not make a lot of money? The Musician is no longer the genius, he's the pop star who Simon Cowell can make millions from. It's a system that finds primative people across the World, and says "Ok here's the deal, you either work long hours for us in extremely poor conditions, or we'll take up all your land, and you'll probably just starve to death." It's disgusting, it's vile, it's something I could never advocate. It needs to change.
England now sees me as a commodity. I should be selling my labour to pay taxes to fund tax cuts for big business. That's all I am now. A commodity. A money making machine. I am no longer a human. No one is a human any more. We're all just here to make money for those of us who already have too much. We could have been repeatedly raped as children, grown up mentally disturbed because of it, and unless we're working 9-5 everyday, the British Public fresh from thirty odd years of a selfish Thatcherite legacy will have no sympathy. You're like a broken TV , worthless, if there was room at land fills, you'd be stuck beneath their broken fridge, or underneath pile after pile of out-of-date food that the Third World would kill for. The Capitalist World tells me I shouldn't worry about who I am, or dwell on how i'm feeling, or try to express myself, or search for a more meaningful purpose to my life, if there isn't money to be made in the process. "I hate money, it's a fucking fetish" - Che Guevara.
After reading Trotsky and Marx, Friedman and Mises, along with many more Socialist and Capitalist writers, after infact reading more Capitalist theory than Socialist in the hope that i'd be able to challenge my own preconceptions on humanity, I find myself unable to justify Capitalism and the deregulated markets. With every book on Capitalism I read, I find myself pulling closer to Socialism than ever before. Capitalism makes wolves out of good men. Communism is the unspoken ideal.
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2009-Jan-6 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by gypsy |
I agree with so much you've said. But my dad's a Chinese immigrant. The word "communism" makes my skin crawl. I know what it literally means, for the people at the bottom of the food chain. It's even worse.
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| Posted by jme2007 |
| Communism has never been tried. Stalinist Russia, or Mao China, was never Communist. A dictatorship, using the word "communism" is a disgrace to Marx. |
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