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Capitalism: the Material Basis of Crime

End Crime and Capitalism

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EL SALVADOR —On past occasions when I have had the opportunity to speak a little about crime or the massacres that occur in the country, I have noted how some fellow students in the University, friends, and a good part of the population in the country believe (as shown mainly through social networks) or have been forced to believe that violence is a simple problem. This fact has no relation with capitalist social factors. They forget the great weight that economic conditions exercise in the crimes in a community.
The bosses promote programs of “analysis” in which intellectuals spend hours talking about “ideal” or subjective solutions for a changing reality, or they simply say nothing. And the propaganda of the government of the “left” of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) which has left to one side dialectics, Marxist-Leninist philosophy, and the teaching of communist political economy is submerged in the reformist idea that with more violence (repression for the offenders) and stricter laws they will resolve the problem of organized crime.
The bosses leave aside the analysis of the conditions of life to which these workers have been subjected which push them to decide to be criminals to survive. For human nature is not that we are evil, since knowledge, ideas, and emotions are acquired through practice, since “we aren’t born like that, we learn to be like that.” Our nature is modified by our living conditions and life experiences, both individual and collective.
The International Communist Workers’ Party through the work of its clubs promotes critical and objective thinking about reality based on communist dialectical materialist philosophy. Our mission is to build a Party and a Red Army that destroys the capitalist system and resolves problems like organized crime. This crime plagues countries in which the consumption and transport of drugs provides the means of subsistence for the families of hundreds of men and women workers who have been the victims of the crisis in the capitalist market.
With the elimination of money as part of the politics of mobilizing the masses for communism, we will deal a direct blow to crime. The initial goal of any criminal consortium, from drug trafficking to the treatment of people, is to generate profits, to get money. For wage slavery and the theft the value that workers produce forms the basis of the socioeconomic structure of the capitalist system.
It is enormous cynicism to think that ideas generated at the luxurious desks of the electoral politicians like the current representatives will eliminate or reduce the more than twenty homicides a day.
A society led by ICWP, focused on the wellbeing of all, will allow workers to reduce our working hours, reducing the level of stress and eliminating worry about paying the banks, mortgages, and companies selling basic services. Today, all of this ends up leading some workers to take refuge in drugs, alcohol, or even suicide as happens in Europe or the USA.  In addition, having strong quality education that is really free and organizing cultural and leisure activities in which entire families are involved, will help eliminate criminal activity carried out by organized crime.
For those who choose to be social misfits, there will be centers of reeducation and rehabilitation. If after this they continue their harmful activities to the community, they will be physically disappeared since we cannot risk the well being of the workers’ families for “a bad apple.”
Thus we are showing as a lie the idea that the bourgeoisie tries to make us believe, that the criminals or the masses of people who form part of organized crime do this because they are bad or because they simply want to be criminals.

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