the capitalist system does nothing but perpetuate scocial diferences in our scociaty. yes education is the key, but education costs money therefore you must have money in order to get an education to make money. this makes the gap between the rich and the poor widen with each generation.
heres a speach i wrote and presented for a school project it our lines some basic problems but was forced to leave alot out becase of time restrictions.
150 years ago, a young German philosopher looked out into the world around him and to his dismay all he saw was oppression exploitation, rampant greed and hate, and apathy. Then he decided that there had to be a better way, a better system in witch the world could run. his name was Karl Marx, and he found his system, he called it communism.
Today communism is always thought to be an evil dictatorship, where people are under content tyranny. But this is not communism, no that is Stalinism, the perverted misrepresentation of Marx’s original righting. But because of the stigma attached to the word communism I’ll be calling it, what it is now more recognized as Marxism. just so we don’t get confused. But still There is probably no body of ideas that is more slandered or misinterpreted than those of Marxism. And the only thing we can blame for that is our current system.
Today most of the world lives in what’s called capitalism. this system is based around free enterprises and an economy dependent on the stock market. You may think that this system is perfect. But I bag to differ. Capitalism creates a class society, it has an upper, middle and lower class. the upper class or Bourgeois, make millions of dollars by getting the middle and lower classes or proletariats to work for them. they are by far the minority, they are only 1% of the population yet own 90% of the worlds wealth. And in complete contrast there are thousands of people living on the street, living off what ever the can find. they can’t get a job because they don’t have an education, they don’t have an education because they don’t have money, and they don’t have money because they can’t get a Job!! It’s a vitious cycle of poverty that does nothing but suck people in. And what does that leave? the middle class, the majority of the population. We are the apathetic ones, those that seem as if they could not care less about our situation, are we so conceded to think beyond our own selfish lives? are we too self centred to care at all. And is there nothing more noble we can do then work for a faceless corporation? the truth is that the working class is over worked. Marx once said “the only difference between a slave and a worker is, you buy the slave and rent the worker”. think about it, they sell them their product labour, in order to live. they work long hours for little pay come home with little time to spend with there families, sleep, eat and do it all over again. our apathy is the result of the stresses of daily life under capitalism. we work day in day out with no real care about the real problems in the world. and wile this is all going on here, else where in the world millions of people are starving and being exploited by companies based in north America and we do nothing to stop it.
Marxism on the other hand is a completely different system from what we have now. it’s a classless system, with no rich and no poor. people get out of the system the exact same what they put in, from every one to there abilities to every one to there needs. Marxist economy is based on need instead of want. Think of that statement alone, based on need instead of want. what do we really need compared to what we want. We don’t need three TVs in a house, we don’t need 2 garages, we don’t need expensive furniture or designer clothes. what we need is better health care, better education, more houses, and more Jobs! but moving on. you wont have to worry about the stock market or inflation because they don’t exist in a planed economy. prices are not determined on supply and demand but rather on labour and material costs. as it should be. eventually money will not be needed at all as people will work to better them selves and society rather then for capital gain. greed and apathy will no longer exist because it wont be taught to our children like it is today. because we can change human nature by changing the conditioning of our environments. and Marxism being the most democratic system ever divesed has it’s own unique system of government. there called soviets. soviets are councils made up of elected representatives from every workplace in a community or city. the soviets act as the government and management for the entire community so every one is working together for a common goal. the members of the soviet are subject to recall at any time. which means they can be in office for as long or as short as the people decide. this allows every one the opportunity to be apart of there government, in the words of Vlatimire Lenin “if every ones a bureaucrat then no ones a bureaucrat.”
So how do we get to be a Marxist society?. it takes time and a lot of work. it’s been tried in the past in bloody revolutions and quick uprisings. they all ended the same in a Stalinist toltaraiun state which barely resembles the idea that started the change. So we must now take a different approach. a slow and steady progression from capitalism to socialism to Marxism. so how do we become socialist? well Canada is already considered a socialist county along with most western society save the States. but we still have all the problems of a capitalist imperialist excuse for a democracy. but most of these problems can be fixed very simply with very small very manageable repercussions.
First we need the NDP in power. we need a left wing party to point us in the right directing. We need the right to Strike and form union with out having to worry about back to work legislation and red tape that contradicts the concepts of democracy!! We need total equality of all Sexes and Races. regardless of what ethnic background you are or what god you believe in or weather your a man or a woman. equal pay for work of equal value. It puts an end to all forms of discrimination. workers unity is the way to defeat the conditions that breed racism. We need free Education for all. no more tuition fees and loans that can only keep people from getting an education. We need to pull out of NAFTA, WTO and other deals that are the tools of imperialist exploitation. full employment and decent wages for all. a 32 hour work week with no loss in pay, a right to a job, and a national minimum wage of no less then 2 thirds the average wage. cutting the max. work week creates a labour shortage, that would eliminate unemployment. Free health care for all. Stop with Privatizing the land, all land should remain public for everyone’s use. A socialized plan of production for the fisheries, timber and agriculture. Those workers should have the option to join collective farming or harvesting programs
But what can we do as students? you probably ask yourself now, what difference could I possible make at my age? the best thing that you can do now is educate your self on these subjects. keep an open mind and don’t become another drone to the capitalists. if you want to help the least you can do is come talk to me I can help you get involved. just don’t do nothing, don’t automatically think that nothing we do will make change. and don’t continue to think that the world is fine just the way it is. ignorance and apathy are routes of all evil in this world. so any questions comments concerns or quires?