More Peoples Weekly World commentary
Seth David Schoen (schoen@uclink4.Berkeley.EDU)
25 Nov 1997 03:15:43 GMT
CAPITALISM'S CONTRADICTIONS
That is the basic contradiction of capitalism -- between the social nature
of production and the private ownership of the means of production and
profits.
It is a contradiction that can only be resolved by the working class when
it decides that living under capitalism has become intolerable. It can
only be resolved by a revolutionary transformation of power and wealth
from the capitalist class to the working class, a transition from a
capitalist to a socialist system.
Socialism will do away with this negative contradiction. Under a socialist
system every person would share in the production and the consumption of
all the values labor produces. It really is as simple as that.
As long as capitalism exists there will be the struggle between labor and
capital. The outcome of the class struggle is inevitable because the end
of capitalism is inevitable. It is also inevitable that socials -- a
system that does away with antagonistic classes forever -- will replace
capitalism.
The trade union, rank and file victories in the class struggle during the
past year are big advanc toward that new day for the working class.
--
Seth David Schoen L&S '01 (undeclared) / schoen@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Magna dis immortalibus habenda est atque huic ipsi Iovi Statori, antiquissimo
custodi huius urbis, gratia, quod hanc tam taetram, tam horribilem tamque
infestam rei publicae pestem totiens iam effugimus. -- Cicero, in Catilinam I