File spoon-archives/marxism2.archive/marxism2_1996/96-09-20.183, message 23


Date: 11 Sep 96 15:42:00 EDT
From: jc mullen <100663.643-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Abundance


As long as there is penury, there will be no socialism. Fortunately there is no
penury. 
Take the present society.
Take away enrgy and resources which are only made necessary by the dictatorship
of the market : I estimate
95% of the finance industry
95% of the advertising industry
60% of research (repeated by different competing companies, or aiming only at
profit)
100% of arms industry
90% of police
100% of insurance
The massive savings through rational transport (everyone hates cars in the city)
The massive savings because people are not so fed up out of their mind that they
spend their money partly on bullshit because it makes them feel like they are
worth something.

Add
The skills of the tens of millions of unemployed
The way people are prepared to work when they are working for something
worthwhile and not for some arsehole of a boss.
The rises in productivity that can come quickly when scientific researcj is not
based on competition but on cooperation.
The rises in productivity already known but not used because of the market.
The power of people who have been educated not bullied.

This is what i call abundance. The argument of whether or not resources are
unlimitedly large is pretty uninteresting. it is at least absolutely clear that
a socialist society can provide for everyone what can reasonably  be described
as luxury.

Communism is not an absolute paradise... who needs it. It is only a world
without famine without wars without alienation where everyone lives in luxury.

Like Mae West said "I've been poor and I've been rich. believe me, rich is
better.
JOhn Mullen
SI France



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