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I understand that capitalism is capitalism — that’s clear to me. But here, liberals and many on the left talk about oligarchy, while very few mention in their writings and speeches the capitalist mode of production, which would actually address the root cause of the so-called oligarchy.
———————————————–The so-called liberals are not liberals either; they advocate for state-controlled or regulated capitalism. What the leftists call neo liberalism is monetarism.
They have spent their whole life talking about neo liberalism, but they do not talk about the real causes of our society, which is capitalism.
To transfer or to sell state property to private capitalists is not neoliberalism, and the state is not a public institution; it is the private institution of the capitalist class. Most of their definitions and concepts are wrong
Leftists are always inventing new terms that are old terms. Capitalism has always been governed and controlled by a minority; and it is a society for a minority, it is nothing new.
Their conception is related to their wrong ideas about the state; they think that the state is a neutral institution for all members of society, as well as they think that the state is financed by the working class, that wars are financed by the workers and that workers have a national debt, therefore, according tp their views workers are part of the capitalist state and that in a socialist society workers are going to have their own state.
It is not; the state it is the executive organ of the capitalist class to administer their socio-economic affairs, ( It was clearly indicated on the Communist Manifesto, and Scientific socialism ) that is not where their wrong conception of the so-called workers’ state comes from, in a socialist society workers are not going oppress each other, and the working class is not going to be a ruling class, it will negate itself a a social class, it will not be a proletarian class any more,
They are still enarbolating the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is a temporary measure that belongs to the 19th century, because capitalism was not a worldwide spread economic system.
With the development of capitalism, the DOP is no longer needed; they are still living in the past, and personally, I think Marx should not have elaborated on that concept, which has created much confusion, and Lenin completely distorted it.
In the particular state of the United States of America, it has always been governed by an oligarchy since the very beginning, and several of the so-called Founding Fathers were members of the capitalist class.Joe Biden discovered last year that the US was governed by an oligarchy;y, old news is not new news. He did not apply it to himself; they think that the only country controlled by an oligarchy is Russia, all countries around the world are governed by an oligarchy, including the so-called socialist countries
https://www.anh-academy.org/community/blogs/price-controls-and-food-access-lessons-from-venezuela
Food price control in Venezuela
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9675889/
Rent control in Argentina
Removal of rent control in Argentina
https://www.britannica.com/money/land-reform
Land Reforms, also implemented by a dictator and supported by a communist party.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0739885923000173
Free transportaiton
Free college tuition, as well as Peron in Argentina, implemented a free tuition program too.
Most of his reforms have already been implemented in other countries, especially third-world countries; nothing new. Some universities had free transportation for the students, and others had their own transportation, free meals, textbooks sold without any profits by the universities, and open admissions
This is the list of the so-called socialist parties of the whole world that are part of the world social democracy and the international socialist. Several of them have implemented the same reforms.
https://www.internacionalsocialista.org/politicas-progresistas/miembros/
The DSA is saying that the workers have defeated corporations, the capitalists and capitalism, but how?
The corporations are still and will continue producing surplus values, capitalism is still alive, the capitalists are still controlling the economy and the capitalist state, it is their economy and their superstructure.
‘Socialism” in one country, one region and one city is only an illusion created by the Bolsheviks and their variants
Real estate businesses are still producing fictitious capital; they produce capital from land royalties, which is not real capital. Workers are the only ones who can produce real social value, and in political economy, it indicates that planet Earth has no value.
In New York, most factory jobs were exported to China, Vietnam and other asian countries by the capitalists, and the republican and democratic governments supported those decisions, to produce more profits, and that increased the army of the unemployed to compete with each other for lower wages.
They continue displacing poor people from ethnic neighbourhoods to renovate and build expensive residences that the workers can not afford.
The DSA is only infiltrating their own members inside of a capitalist political party that is assimilating them, and they have approved several anti-worker measures passed by the Democratic Party. If you go to bed with dogs, you will get fleas.
They are just making propaganda and reactivating the Democratic Party, which was defeated by another capitalist party during the last election.
They compete with each other, taking turns to oppress and control the working class, which shows that left and right are just two wings of the same bird, known as capitalism.
https://www.dsausa.org/statements/zohran-mamdani-wins-national-political-committee-statement/. Their candidates are part of the Democratic Party; even more, Bernie Sanders, who calls himself independent, is also an affiliate of the Democratic Party
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Should we be arguing that, if Mamdani’s bunch can increase rent controls, there might be a temporary improvement to workers’ living standards, but the law of value will operate on wages and the result will merely be a redistribution of surplus value away from the rentiers and towards the employers?
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The main socialist argument, which is not the argument of the leftwinger, is that taxation produces a heavy burden on the capitalist profits, and to implement it, taxation on the capitalists must be increased, and the capitalists are going to push back, and the state would be forced to eliminate the program.Most rich people, landowners, and landlords are against those reforms because they know that they will affect their profits.
Real estate in New York is very expensive, and it produces high rental income
It might temporarily increase the standard of living of the workers for a short period of time, but nothing is free in a capitalist society
.Those programs must be implemented using higher taxation on the capitalists; it is a tax law, like Obamacare is a tax law, and that is the reason why the capitalists want to eliminate it.
The main problem with those social democratic reformists ( calling themselves socialists ) is that when they fail, or their reformist programs can not be implemented, the capitalists blame it on socialism.
His program is new for the American ( USA ) workers, but it is not new for the Europeans and some Latin American countries, who have also elected social democrats, and socialism is not a dirty word.
It was implemented after the economic boom of the post-war period and high taxation on the capitalist class, but most of those programs have been reversed.
Some right-wing presidents and dictators have implemented programs of land reform for the peasants, price control, and rent control, and they have not worked; on the contrary, they have created more economic problems.
A president or a state minister can not control the market system.
In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez implemented some free programs for the workers, including housing, but they failed because capitalism must produce profits to avoid economic crisis.
I forgot to mention in my last message ( I can’t edit it ) that socialism is not going to be an economic system; it is a social production, or a society of freely associated labourers
Better correct “with” to “without” before “social classes”, or Wez will pick up on it!
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I am resting my case: There is no fascism, there are no fascists, and socialism is not an ideology, and it is not a doctrine either, even though Engels used the expression: doctrine in a different context. Later on, he called socialism/communism a movement
Every month from the Socialist Standard, we are going to translate one or two important articles in Spanish, French and Portuguese
Well, there are more than 7 websites publishing articles and pamphlets from the Socialist Party, World Socialist Movement, in different languages.
https://bsky.app/profile/movimientosocialis.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@publicacionespoloticasyecono
https://www.facebook.com/groups/713297011781469
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569616352095
Marx defined ideology as the ideas that uphold the conceptions of the ruling class in every epoch; Engels also defined it as false consciousness, or a distortion of reality.
Therefore, socialism is not an ideology because the working class is not and will not be a ruling class; on the contrary, it is going to establish a society without social classes, without a ruling class, without distortion of our social reality
Socialism will provide self-class consciousness and real social awareness to the whole world working class, and all ideologies of all kinds will be rejected.
Socialists are and should be against all ideologies
When Marx was a proto Menshevik, Lenin copied or took some of his conceptions to elaborate some of his Leninist distortions, including the national liberation. Marx changed his point of view when he became politically mature. Was Marx or Engels responsible for Leninism?
Julius Martov’s archives in Spanish have been expanded, too.
https://www.marxists.org/espanol/martov/index.htm
There are four more articles that were published by the Socialist Party that can not be included. They were not written by Julius Martov
Most Socialist Party pamphlets like this one have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and French
