Re: [A-List] Romantizing working classes: Jobs (No) and human needs

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>>Now , give a justification for not advocating building plants  for jobs for
workers in the U.S.<<


MP:  I am  ideological. My ideology is communism . . . not Marxism. My
justification of  absolutely refusing to advocate building new plants as the
solution to  joblessness is my communist ideology.

My communist ideology is a belief system that says plants or factories
should never be built so that people have jobs or for use-values. Everything of
utility to our species is not a use-value. Picking an apple off a tree and
eating it does not imply it possess a use value simply because it has utility. I
do not advocate building plants as the solution to joblessness or poverty.

My reasoning is as follows: We have an infrastructure of productivity
already in existence, more than capable of providing for all of our fundamental  -
authentic human needs. The problem is not a lack of production facilities -
plants, but rather how this production is deployed or how this production is put
 to use and set in motion. We are at another stage of development different
from  the way the world and America was say 50 years ago.

Production should take place to provide for authentic human needs and needs
generated on the basis of cultural and intellectual development. The only
solution available to us today is the reorganization of the basis of production.
This means reorganizing the productive forces that exist today to produce to
satisfy human needs rather than profits.

My justification for absolutely refusing to advocate building new plants in
America or suggesting to any human being in America that the solution to
joblessness - even in a partial way, resides in building new plants, arise from
an awareness that we already possess enough productive forces to service the
needs of well over 298,000,000 people in America. In my estimate America by
itself, based on a rough estimate of our agriculral sector could service the
needs of well over 2 billion people today, if properly deployed or not deployed
for purposes of profits.

Take the major bottlers and soda production companies. Rather than  producing
obscene quantities of Coke, Pepsi, Seven-up, Dr. Pepper and Sprite,  these
production facilities and their extensive infrastructure can be deployed
bottling and providing clean water to roughly 6 billion people today as they  exist.
The problem is not the need for more production facilities to give people
jobs but rather, how the production facilities that already exist are  deployed.

Roughly 75% of all the facilities geared to military production need to be
converted into production of things - goods, (not use-values) that service
expanding authentic human needs. Authentic human needs is a concept and field of
debate. For instance my vision and ideology informs me that Coke Cola and
Pepsi  Cola do not service an authentic human need, but rather a need cultivated
by  bourgeois production and as such is called a bourgeois need. Coke and
Pepsi are  not produced for their use-value but profits. Nor do we need a the Big
Three in  America producing millions of automobiles, meaning General Motors,
the Chrysler  Group and Ford. No less than 75% of their production facilities
could be  converted into servicing infrastructure development - housing and say
heating  and cooling units, door knobs, all kinds of metal shaping and
stamping needs and  many other human needs.

Look at all the various brands of cereal on the market that do not service
an authentic human need. Although milk production and consumption in America
has  fallen for 50 years the milk producers infrastructure could be utilized for
a  different purpose. The world "medicine" industry - spewing forth billions
of  worthless and harmful pills, needs to be radically reorganized and its
goals  transformed. This infrastructure of production needs radical
reorganization and  deployment.

Advocating building plants to provide jobs so that people can be able to
exchange their labor power for wages and escape poverty is not the solution to
falling wages and joblessness. The demand for income is a partial solution
capable of rallying million of people towards the goal of economic communism.
What we face today is not the building up of the industrial infrastructure but
its further development, reorganization and re-deployment.

I advocate a communist revolution for today and tell people such and not
what you call a Marxist revolution. Such is my justification for refusing to
advocate building new plants as the solution to joblessness and poverty. Plus,
people have a right to be lazy or not even have a job. Everyone in our society
does not need to work although most people will contribute to building and
maintain a developing societal infrastructure without coercion. This is so as
an  aspect of our elementary consciousness or conscious understanding of
species  being.

Those Marxist that advocate building new plants so that American workers  can
have jobs lack vision and unthinkingly adopt and adapt to the  bourgeois
imperial outlook. Those American Marxists that cry crocodile  tears over "the
running away of American industry from U.S. national  soil" express the most foul
chauvinism and forget our interdependence and  interactivity as a world
market.

Brother, you unwittingly fall into this national chauvinism by not slowly
and seriously thinking things out.

Oh . . . also dated a woman who worked at Mound Road Engine in the late
1970s and early 1980s named Bonnie Brooks. She defeated me in my reelection for
Committeeman - about a year before I retired, and became the first woman - and
first black women, to win the highest office in our plant.

No man . . . I do not advocate building new plants so that workers can have
jobs. I advocate economic communism for today.

Melvin P.