[PEN-L:6899] Re: reform or revolution? revisited

[SHAWGI TELL <v600a8e6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Helene Jorgensen wrote:

> Teach Both! Corporations can choose to exploit their workers,  or they can
> choose to cooperate with their workers to stay competitive. Many Am.
> corporations have chosen the first option, whereas the second is more
> widespread in some European countries. Obviously, the second option is
> better for the society as a whole, since the gains from being competitive
> are more equally distributed.
>
> Helene Jorgensen

Assuming this is true, how will a more equal distribution change the
fundamental nature of the capitalists system, a system of exploitation?
How will (re)distribution move society forward on a systematic, sustained
basis?  The owners of the means of production would still remain the
owners and the producers would still remain the producers.  In other
words, the objective concrete basis for exploitation of persons by
persons will not disappear if wealth is merely redistributed.  Besides,
and speaking objectively, monopoly capitalists are not interested in the
well-being of workers.  Their aim is maximum capitalist profits.  For
the monopoly capitalists, workers are merely incidental to the labor
process.  The workers and capitalists have interests which stand in
diametric opposition to each other.


Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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