{"id":254885,"date":"2024-11-20T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=254885"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:09:30","slug":"what-lies-beneath","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/what-lies-beneath\/","title":{"rendered":"What lies beneath\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve being paying attention recently, you will have heard Labour ministers claiming that they are \u201cfixing the foundations\u201d of the economy. Convinced? Neither are we. Because the foundations (actually, foundation singular) of the current system is profit-seeking, which works best when it is able to screw the maximum possible amount of unpaid labour from the workers.<\/p>\n<p>Like the previous lot (who were going to Build Back Better, remember?), Starmer, Reeves et al love a construction analogy, but daren\u2019t let on that the capitalist edifice, foundation included, was built for the benefit of the capitalists, and that the role of government is to try to ensure continuing \u2018peaceful enjoyment\u2019 of said edifice for the minority class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-254885","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/254885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}