Well, you could if “the wages

December 2025 Forums General discussion Party Aims Well, you could if “the wages

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ALB
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Well, you could if “the wages system” is seen as a synomym for capitalist or profit system. After all, wage-labour and capital go together and you can’t have one without the other. In that case “abolition of the wages system” and “abolition of the profit system” mean the same thing, expressed differently.But if you mean (just) wanting to “abolish wages” the same objection can be raised against this as saying we (just) want to abolish money. Obviously, to just abolish wages or money and leave everything else about capitalist society unchanged would lead to chaos and in fact to the eventual re-emergence of both.To be absolutely precise, what we want is to establish a system of society based on the common ownership and democratic control of the means of production by the whole community, a state of affairs in which wages and money would not exist. This could be said to be our only aim.Having said this, slogans like “Abolish the Wages System” and “Abolish Money” could have a use to intrigue people to investigate more what we mean.