FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
International Communist Workers Party
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LOS ANGELES, USA--“My car was stolen. I took public transportation to get home after getting off work at 11 pm. I didn’t get home until 3:30 am. This after walking 8 blocks from the train stop,” explained Ramón.
Ramon is an immigrant worker. He works for the minimum wage as a parking-lot attendant in downtown Los Angeles. He lives in one of the many drug infested, gang riddled neighborhoods of the Los Angeles area.
This is one of the countless nightmares experienced daily by working people forced to use public transportation in Los Angeles. It should come as no surprise. It should motivate us to fight for a communist world.
Only communism—a society based on collectively planning, producing and distributing everything according to human need —can have mass transportation that indeed serves the needs of the working class.
Public or privately owned, capitalism’s mass transportation system’s main purpose is to serve the needs of the capitalist wage-slave masters. Their profit needs demand that masses of workers be transported daily from their homes to their worksites to be exploited.
If transporting them turns a profit, that’s even better. If not, the government subsidizes it. MTA is such a subsidized company. As a bus operator once told Red Flag:
“We MTA bus and rail operators are nothing but wage slaves transporting other wage slaves from their homes to the plantations and back to their homes.”
MTA’s main purpose is to transport daily and as cheaply as possible 1.2 million, mainly low paid wage slaves. This explains MTA’s callous treatment of their passengers and operators.
MTA bus and train operators ferry these workers from their home to the capitalists’ worksites where their racist superexploitation produces enormous profits for the capitalists.
These workers are part of the 5 million strong work force whose labor makes LA County, with a yearly GDP of $664 billion, the second richest county in the country. Yet, over 800,000 workers make just the minimum wage, and 50% of the LA County population is one paycheck away from being homeless.
Los Angeles MTA’s budget for 2016 was $5.6 billion. At the fare box MTA collects just 26% of its operating cost or about $1.5 billion. The remaining $4.1 billion is subsidized by the state government.
In reality, it is a disguised subsidy to the garment bosses and the owners of other low paid industries, high-rise buildings, hotels, restaurants and fast-food chains. These capitalists save billions by not paying these workers enough to enable them to buy, insure, or maintain a car – which can be then stolen like Ramón’s.
In communism, a society without money, there won’t be any need to steal anything. Words like steal, cost, and price will disappear from our language. There also won’t be any need for private anything. Good, safe mass transportation will guarantee that everyone—except some persons with special needs—will only use mass transportation—including bicycles.
Service will not be reduced or eliminated at night time or on weekends and holidays like capitalism does to save money. Communist mass transportation will be the same quality and the needed quantity, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
We can’t, however, have safe good mass transportation in unsafe cities. Eliminating the capitalists-imperialists—the biggest criminals in history—and their profit driven system, we will reduce and eventually eliminate all antisocial behavior.
Eliminating money will eliminate the incentive to peddle drugs. The capitalists push drugs to brutalize and imprison us to keep us away from revolution, while making billions of dollars off it.
Besides money, unemployment is a major contributor to antisocial behavior. Communism will have an abundance of creative socially rewarding work for everyone.
Sharing the fruits of our labor according to need will guarantee that no one is better off than others. With all our needs being met, there won’t be any need for petty “crimes.” Communism will have no police, courts or jails. Words like crime and criminals will disappear from our language. We will only have antisocial behavior, which we will deal with as collectively and humanely as possible.
To get there we must organize an armed revolution to overthrow the capitalists, destroy capitalism, and build a communist society based on human needs and humane communist production and social relations. Join us!