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In reply to the discussion: Democratic Socialist [View all]AOR
(692 posts)as I said... what YOU think has no basis in objective material reality and the facts on the ground. The entire history of capitalist social relations moves in the exact opposite direction that the reformers claim possible. We see this in "Nordic Socialism" and "mixed systems." Austerity is the name of the game when capitalist crisis of over production and growth rears its head. It is NOT a matter of opinion on what you think or what I think. It is reality. This is happening in Denmark, Norway, Finland to name but a few of the "mixed economies." Capital reinvents itself under numerous names but the foundations of Capitalism remain the same. Those foundations are built on the exploitation of workers and labor. There are no "moral foundations" of capitalist social relations - that must remain for society to function - as the apologists claim.
"Private enterprise" is not possible without the theft of labor of the many. Without a complete change in the power structure and control of the commons that serves at the alter of Capital rather than the workers and people as a WHOLE there will be no so solutions. There will never be any "mixture of Socialism and Capitalism" that doesn't leave the Socialism part of it in the dust in the long run.
Class struggle is not an illusion.
Ruling class = those who own and control the means of production and thus are able to dominate and exploit a working class of wage-workers.
Working Class = those who must sell their labor power and work as wage-slaves in service to a ruling class or starve.