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What do you mean by ‘normal profit’?
Let me get this straight, using a hypothetical situation:
Canada imports apples to the USA & they go on sale for 10 cents an apple. This is the same cost as American (i.e. domestically produced) apples. Canadian apple producers are making the ‘normal profit’ by selling at that price, whereas, American apple producers are not.
After the USA imposes tariffs on apples, the Canadian apple producers import less, therefore, reducing supply & increasing the cost of all apples to 20 cents each, which will enable the American apple producers to make a ‘normal profit’.
Did I get that right?
You’ve lost me in the final paragraph.
‘I mean, we do assume, don’t we, that people establishing the new society, even though it can’t be done until there’s a majority, would be forward-thinking people, who empathise with suffering, hate cruelty and carnage, and want to protect nature.’
I certainly agree with that.
I cannot believe some of my comrades think boxing will still exist in socialism!
Fun fact: Boxing was much safer before boxing gloves were invented. This is because bare-knuckle boxers avoided punching the head, whereas, when they started wearing gloves, they couldn’t stop punching the head (because the gloves cushioned the blow to their fists).
In a socialist world, people will either figure out how to do dangerous work safely or they won’t do the work.
Smokers will still be allowed to smoke after the revolution, however, society will probably slowly ween itself off smoking (not by force, but by choice).
Wouldn’t it be good if we focused on a few specific wards & threw everything we have at them at every election? That way, we might slowly but steadily convert the people of those wards to socialism; then focus on converting a few more wards to socialism; then a few more to socialism; etc. If the SPGB had started doing that in 1904, the world socialist revolution may have happened years ago.
What do you think?
You made some great points, Robbo. I love the phrase “hostages to the future”.
(. . .)
When it comes to nuclear power, PJS should be included in the debate because he seems quite knowledgeable on that subject.
It is good to imagine what life in socialism will be like, but it’s also very hard because life in a socialist society will be so different than a capitalist society.
When it comes to planning how we’re going to solve problems, such as lifting people in the Global South out of extreme poverty as quickly as possible, I believe we should wait until the World Socialist Movement starts to really take-off before doing that (for example, when the SPGB has at least 100,000 members).
