Smash Socialism Not Capitalism

I am continually amazed by the fact that reasonably intelligent individuals still shill for socialism.  Haven’t socialism’s recognized failures and abuses of individuals in the recently past decades been enough to totally discredit socialism?  Evidently not.

"From space you can see no borders. We, and previous generations, have built up a productive capacity that is more than sufficient to feed, clothe, shelter, educate and amuse everyone on the planet. The only barrier to its use for that purpose is that it exists as capital. The only basis for its continuing existence as capital is our continuing acceptance of capitalist and state property rights. From below, at the sharp end, in the worker’s-eye view, these look as obsolete and obscene as property rights in people. Without those rights, capital would just be machinery, that we all together already operate and improve upon every day, every minute, collectively and globally. The only way in which these rights can be permanently abolished is consciously, politically, collectively and globally, at one fell swoop. Not on the same day all over the world of course, but in the space of a few years, in one historical moment. And why not? Slavery and feudalism were in the end abolished, with a stroke of the pen followed if necessary by a stroke of the sword."

Bah.  The above is quote from a piece written by Ken MacLeod titled “‘What else, gentlemen, would it be but communism, “possible” communism?’"

Posted by on 06/07 at 05:50 AM

  1. That’s too bad.  I’ve enjoyed several of Ken MacLeod’s stories, and saw him as sympathizing more with Jon Wilde’s free-market anarchist character.

    Posted by Andy Stedman  on  06/07  at  09:22 AM

  2. McLeod is probably the most intelligent socialist on the net - and he’s still a swine.

    Rather like Harold Covington and the neo-Nazis in that respect.

    Posted by John Sabotta  on  06/10  at  08:43 PM

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