In about 150 years the capitalists have polluted and contaminated just about all the air we need to breath, almost all the land required to grow the food we need to eat and most of the water we need to drink and sustain life.
And they have done all of this using exploited labor.
Workers along with no small amount of help from Mother Nature created ALL wealth.
How much longer can we tolerate and allow the exploitation of labor and the rape of Mother Nature?
We have people saying, including many socialists who are supporting Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, that this is no time to initiate a discussion about socialism because it will jeopardize the chances of either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton being elected.
Considering the predicament capitalism has placed us in I don't think we can afford to not discuss how we can replace capitalism with socialism.
Some people like to push the idea that "humans" are responsible for this climate change and global warming but the culprits are a very small section of humanity--- the capitalists.
Will we allow Wall Street and a handful of financial centers to continue to dominate and dictate how we will live and work and produce and for what ends production will take place?
Will we continue to tolerate the private ownership of the mines, mills, factories, banks, agriculture, health care and energy industries?
All the polls show that after decades of the most vicious red-baiting and government repression, the majority of the American people believe we at least need a discussion about socialism.
Just before the Civil War began Congress was debating whether or not a discussion should be has as to what kind of economy was best for the Nation and all the people.
Granted, it is a little late to now have this discussion but better late than never.
And the only way this discussion is going to take place is if the discussion is advanced from the grassroots just like all struggles for reforms come from the bottom up into the mainstream.
Without this struggle, the battle of ideas in our modern world, the discussion will never take place.
So... Speak up! Write! Talk to people!
There are no capitalist solutions to our common problems.
Solving our problems must include socialist solutions to our specific problems.
Now I know someone is going to come back and say they are sick of hearing nothing but carping from the back rows; so, once again I bring forward specific solutions to our problems... solutions that will get us on the road to socialism.
Remember, we don't need "reforms" intended to "improve," "make better" or make capitalism more people friendly since this can't be done--- there is no such thing as a "people's capitalism" because the very nature of capitalism is that the many work and the few profit.
We need reforms that solve the problems of the people as we struggle for the revolutionary transformation of society.
http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/so-worthless-democratic-party-hacks.html
Consider organizing a Marxist Study Club and Political Action Committee where you live, go to school or work.
Something else to think about:
Honest people would engage in a discussion about these kinds of reforms and socialism not try to shut discussion down using all kinds of devious and dishonest attacks.
Now would be a good time to organize debates all over the country in urban and rural areas taking up the debate:
Should we continue down the capitalist road or take the road to socialism?
Have a proponent of capitalism and a proponent of socialism debate this question.
Isn't this what democracy is supposed to be all about.
Send me an airline ticket, bus ticket or train ticket and I will travel anyplace, anytime to defend the socialist perspective in a debate with any proponent of capitalism.
