[kj] Killing joke and Communism

[Mister Black]

"(with all goods distributed according to need, not status)"

 Well, we all dont *need* much to survive , no one *needs* expensive cars or Jewellery or  large houses or anything of that nature , all we "need" is food , shelter and water . You dont realise Greg that people consuming things keeps others in employment . If we only consumed what we needed, then that would take away many peoples employment .
    And who decides who needs what? That Human survival instinct makes us naturally Capitalist . In Communist Countries , there is only minimal need for consumer goods , so there is a lot of people without jobs to do, so they have 20 people "employed" to do a one man job .
  How about giving goods to people who contribute the most to society? How about giving people who make the most contribution a piece of paper entitling them to rewards for there hard work? How about calling this piece of paper: Money? *

*Is that the correct punctuation ?





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Message Received: Aug 22 2007, 04:36 AM
From: "GREG SLAWSON" 
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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Subject: Re: [kj] Killing joke and Communism

I respectfully disagree. Socialism (the big S one?) is what existed in the USSR and China and is hanging on in Cuba. They all maintained heirarchical leadership, wage slavery and wage differences, and economic/political classes. And in China and Russia they led to the current grotesque forms of capitalism (rampant unemployment, crime, drugs, alienation, social unrest, poverty). The other (small s?) or Euro-socialism certainly has advantages (as displayed in the new Micheal Moore film) but maintains all the bad parts of capitalism (unemployment, alienation, 
crime, economic cylcles, top-down leadership, etc). I prefer communism with a big C--summed up in a slogan I made up: 
No wages (with all goods distributed according to need, not status), 
No stages (as in stages from national liberation to socialism to communism, which has failed in countless countries), 
No borders (one world, one party, one flag), 
No orders (all decisions made collectively).
A lot of this stuff can be found at www.plp.org...


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