So I was pondering over the vicious nature of anti-immigration politics when I realized: What is the point of closing the borders. Corporations don’t need workers to come here to get cheap labour. They already outsource.
Though arguably getting off on the wrong foot, from backward conditions, under pressure, devastated and in need of reform, only one country (and maybe it’s allies; I’d have to check) provided full, in-house employment with superior economic growth and social services, including total access education: the Soviet Union.
Healthcare wasn’t as great, given military expenditure and population growth, though apparently they manage it well enough in Cuba at this point, under embargo.
My question is this: y u no communist bro. We don’t gotta do it so totalitarian. We can be all about dem constitushuns. And we can utilize dat market n workers council democrazy.
Ernest Mandel said stuff (actually I’m told he’s not great but this is his high point). U shuld be communism becuz u pick ur hours. Say you don’t want economy develop at breakneck speed u work less. Worker decide. You can read it here.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel ... nning.html
Also, people need dem insulins. Need to make that shit cheap and pronto n distribute it, ration style. But without long lines or shortages. But we can do that! By resolving the information problem through incorporation of the market and workers democracy.
And maybe U decide we don’t need weed killer because you have no backyard. maybe you don’t do stupid ass job making weed killer. All kinds of utopian possibility. People really want that shit, let them make it one day out of the year. Unless robots make it I guess. I don’t really know, I’m making this up. I certainly think people should have to make weed killer if they really want it, instead of making black people box it up.
Also: is Communism inevitable. I do not think it is inevitable. We could degenerate into barbarism instead. I consider this an inferior option to consciously directing our economy.
