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Why We Are Against Capitalism |
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Written by LMV
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We are against capitalism because it does not work. More than half the world’s population are in want or outright starving. The United Nations Development Program estimates that everybody in the world could have access to basic social services, clean water, food, housing, health care, education, for $80 billion per year. The seven richest people in the
world have $1.54 trillion between them. Capitalism cannot transfer the tiny fraction of the wealth of its richest few that would be necessary to provide everybody with the necessities.
But it is not only a question of taking the ill-gotten wealth of the billionaires. It is having a system which allows the working people of the world to have access to ownership and control over capital, machinery, land, water, energy and power so that we can plan production and plan distribution throughout the world. Capitalism cannot allow this. As the Argentinean worker said in 2001 when he and his fellow workers had occupied and were running their factory: “They are terrified of us because we are showing we can run the factory and because we can run the factory this shows we could run the country”.
Capitalism does not work. Capitalism is destroying our planet. We are for a new system where working class people work together and use the resources of the world collectively to create a sustainable economy and where what is produced is equitably distributed. This is a
democratic socialist system. This is what we are fighting for. Contact us and we can work together.
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