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In reply to the discussion: What does "abolish profit" mean? [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)This is to expand on my above post and explain where they get their philosophy from. Much, not all but most, of their beliefs and philosophy is straight from the writings of Marx. You can see it in their Constitution, thei platform, etc. If you havent studied Marx you wont recognize phrases like alienated labor and popular control of resources and production. But when you know Marx you know what they mean.
They dont believe in private business above what one person can do (and very limited there). If you want to have a book store and 6 people work there they believe either it should be state owned or all 6 workers should be equal owners. They believe one person owning the book store making the profits is exploiting the other 5 people there only getting wages.
That is what they mean. Read their documents and pull the key phrases that you may be assigning your own meaning to and then go look them up from the perspective of who Marx used them and you will understand what they mean and what they DSA means when they say things.
Yes, they mean abolish any profit made if you employ any person in any economic activities where another person makes the profit from that labor.