Socialist Standard Past & Present: Saving Capitalism (2018)

Socialist Standard Past & Present: Saving Capitalism (2018): From the May 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard We begin a four-part series on the ‘philanthrocapitalism’ of billionaires such as Bi...

Socialist Standard Past & Present: The Myth of the ‘Self-Made Man’ (2018)

Socialist Standard Past & Present: The Myth of the ‘Self-Made Man’ (2018): From the June 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard Part One Part two of our series on ‘philanthrocapitalism’ One explanation...

Socialist Standard Past & Present: Ecology and revolution (1991)

Socialist Standard Past & Present: Ecology and revolution (1991): From the April 1991 issue of the Socialist Standard The world ecological crisis is on such a scale that many workers believe environ...

Socialist Standard Past & Present: What Does The IWW mean by "Abolition of the Wage S...

Socialist Standard Past & Present: What Does The IWW mean by "Abolition of the Wage S...: "Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!" they ought to inscribe on their ban...

Socialist Standard Past & Present: Engels on Ecology (1991)

Socialist Standard Past & Present: Engels on Ecology (1991): From the April 1991 issue of the Socialist Standard "Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human co...

Socialist Standard Past & Present: Socialism v. Imperialism. (1923)

Socialist Standard Past & Present: Socialism v. Imperialism. (1923): From the February 1923 issue of the Socialist Standard What is the Socialist view of the Empire? What attitude would a revolutionary a...

ABOLISH WORK; ABOLISH THE WAGES SYSTEM IS THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE

Eliminating commodities implies abolishing work and replacing it with a new type of free activity, thereby ending one of modern society's fundamental splits, the one between increasingly reified labor and passively consumed leisure activity. Groups in the process of decomposition although supporting the modern principle of Workers' Power, continue to follow the path of the old workers movement on the central matter of trying to reform and "humanize" work. Today, work itself must be attacked. Far from being "Utopian," the abolition of work is the primary requirement for effectively superseding commodity society, for eliminating in each person's daily life the separation between "free time" and "work time"—those reciprocal sectors of an alienated life—that is the perpetual expression of the commodity's intrinsic contradiction between use-value and exchange-value. Only when this opposition is overcome will people be able to create out of their human activity something that results from desire and consciousness and to see themselves reflected in a world that they themselves have created. The democracy of workers councils provides the solution to all the separations of today. It makes "impossible everything that exists outside of individuals."

THE POVERTY OF STUDENT LIFE 1966 

SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL (SI)

What Does The IWW mean by "Abolition of the Wage System"?

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Sep 18, 2006 - they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wages system!" (Quote from Karl Marx's Value, Price and ...

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The abolition of wage labour means the abolition of production for the sake of production. The Marxist critique of bourgeois society is essentially the critique of wage labour. ... Wage labour can only be generalised if the majority of the population has no means of production and, in general, no property at its disposal.

Preamble to the IWW Constitution | Industrial Workers of the ...

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... on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.

Abolish Wage Slavery: Productivism as an Extractive Industry ...

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Jan 9, 2019 - Taylor died in 1915, and by 1913 the Ford system reduced the production time on the Model T chassis assembly line from 12.5 hours to 1.5 ...

THE CHINESE REVOLUTION OF 1949 WAS A WAR OF NATIONAL LIBERATION 

Starting with the Bolshevik Revolution then followed by the Chinese, these Leninist events were not revolutions*** but battles of national liberation (for as Stalin famously suggested; socialism in one country) China did not have a proletarian revolution because like Russia the proletariat was vastly outnumbered by the rural peasantry.

This was a war of national liberation by Mao and the CPC against their old allies in WWII the KMT Kuomintang under the man who would be king, Chang Kai Shek the KMT lost and were drive out of the mainland to Taiwan.

All peoples struggles after WWII were not revolutions but wars of national liberation against colonialism, a reason to support them, but they were not bourgeois revolutions for liberty, equality, fraternity, nor were they proletarian revolutions, they were military campaigns resulting in coups not unlike that of the Leninist’s in 1918 these were as Lenin called them the war communism of Otto Bismarck, by no means a socialist or communist. The State socialized all functions in the nation to one cause; War.

The conditions for the transformation of capitalism into socialism were not yet fully realized on a global level until production met the conditions of advancing technology and mass production to create a proletarian consumer culture.

The real social revolutionary movements began in 1968, in Europe in particular France but it failed the conditions left it localized. Next was Chile in not long after where a mass revolutionary movement resulted in a real social revolution within the confines of a Bourgeois revolution of Allende, but it foretold the future more than any other struggle had then or since. It looked at socialism as not just State Capitalism and Electricity as Lenin famously quipped, but rather mass production coordinated with AI , the first cyber revolution. This then showed the future of socialism more so than Cuba. But a computer monitor made a less revolutionary symbol than Che, at least in 1973.

Until globalization is complete and the whole world is developed into Fordist production moving the peasantry to the cities to create a work force there will not be and cannot be a world revolution.


Hong Kong protests: The date which has Beijing on the edge
For months, October 1 has loomed over the mass pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, as a whispered deadline for the ruling Chinese Communist Party to take action to end the unrest

*** I do not include the Spanish Civil War and Revolution 1936-39 here because it was far more a precursor to Chile 73 than it was a Leninist coup, though the Stalinists attempted that, the Spain was a social revolution led by Anarchists and Left Communists uniting the City with the country. Proletarians with Peasants against the Catholic Church and the Feudalistic State and its Fascist leader France, it was not seen as a war of National Liberation, because it too looked at itself as a broader revolution hoping to spread across Europe against the rising of Fascism, it was more than a war of National Liberation or even a premature Anti Fascist war. It was a true social revolution, ahead of its time.

RICARDO MIRANDA WAS AN LGBTQ AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CHOICE FOR HIS EMPLOYER PUBLIC SECTOR UNION #CUPE, WHOM HE WAS A REP THEN A RESEARCHER.
THEN FOR THE NDP GOVERNMENT WE WAS MINISTER OF CULTURE AND TOURISM LIKE HIS CUPE MEMBERS HE WAS REP FOR, ALBERTAN'S NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AT ALL THEN NOW THIS
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED BY THIS UNPRINCIPLED OPPORTUNIST

Malcolm Azania
Why did former Alberta NDP cabinet minister Ricardo Miranda endorse any Conservative, let alone Michelle Rempel? Jessica Littlewood writes, "Michelle Rempel is a xenophobic candidate who pedalled a story to Fox News that Canada is over run with asylum seekers. After hearing a story of a gay man who lost his fingers to the cold fleeing USA for fear of being deported to face execution, she can pound sand."

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#election2019 #lgbtq

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Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout: Seventy Years Ago in Peekskill—When White Folks Ri...

Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout: Seventy Years Ago in Peekskill—When White Folks Ri...:



White rioters attack a car of people who attended a heavily guarded Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York in 1949. *Note: **The riot in Peekskill, New York to protest the appearance of Paul Robeson was organized by the Ku Klux Klan in cahoots with the American Legion and local police. Think it can’t happen again? Maybe you haven’t been paying attention.* It should have been a pleasant Sunday in the country. But on September 4, 1949 the residents of *up-scale, White suburban Westchester County New York* got together for a *well-planned* *riot. *It was the second one in a we... more »