Sawant defines socialism
So, there has been some confusion about what “socialism” means. Bernie Sanders equates his “socialism” with the social democracy that has ruled most of Europe since WWII and accounts for the success of such capitalist entities as Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway and .. most of the time England as well.
“Socialism (is) just a matter of taking the industry’s resources out of the hands of the few, and putting them into the hands of the many.”
(Bring Microsoft and Amazon) “into public ownership under democratic workers’ control to be run for public good, not private profit.”
Competition and innovation within ,, industry is “an absurd waste of resources.”
“Does it benefit us to have an endless range of phones where, actually, we could have a few models of really well-functioning smartphones, and not have all these massive resources being devoted to having a little bit of an edge here, a little bit of an edge there?” “Rather than having those resources dedicated to solving the basic problems of society?”
“How do we bring the global economy to function in an efficient way, where resources are directed to the most pressing needs, rather than this nonsense of competition? The alternative would be these technological companies, or any other company really, being democratically owned by humanity, by people, precisely because we all have an interest in solving th….malnutrition, starvation, (and) entire continents without basic tech conveniences that could save backbreaking labor for large swaths of humanity.”
“The story of capitalism could just be told in contradictions,” “Chapter One: Contradictions. Chapter Two: Contradictions. And one of those contradictions is, on one hand, the entire ruling class and multi-billionaire class is completely united in their self-interests, and being bound together, in suppressing the interests of the working class. ”
Tags: Sawant, Sawantism
Posted 19 Oct 2015 by theaveeditor
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