FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
International Communist Workers Party
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How will communism succeed if too many people decide they don’t feel like working? Meaningful work is a human need. We like to feel appreciated and esteemed, not useless or a burden on others. Most people will be happy to make full use of their abilities and talents and to develop new ones. A huge portion of the world’s population is now unemployed or doing things that will be unnecessary in communist society. This vast labor pool will be freed up to help meet everyone’s needs. Here are some official numbers for Los Angeles County (California, USA) from December 2014. Almost 5 million people were officially in the work force. That included many useless jobs: Sales, marketing, advertising, and related occupations: 562,000 (11% of total). In communism, we won’t buy or sell anything. We will produce for use, not for the market. Managers, politicians, executives, administrators: 426,000 (9% of total). In communism, the masses will collectively plan, manage, execute, and administer our own work. Business and financial professionals (such as accountants): 194,000 (4% of total). In communism there will be no money because we will share everything. Cops, courts, lawyers, prison guards: 150,000 (3% of total). These are worse than useless. In communism, there will be no private property or laws to protect it. There will be much less anti-social behavior. When a problem arises the organized masses will handle it collectively. These categories alone include 27% of all jobs in Los Angeles County! And there are many more useless jobs. For example, computer programming, data entry, and secretarial work are not necessarily useless. However, most such jobs today only help bosses make money. So do many jobs in arts, sports, and entertainment, and education. Many industrial workers are intensely exploited making unnecessary junk. In December 2014 about 7.8% of Los Angeles workers were officially unemployed. The real figure was probably double that. So we can safely estimate that capitalism wastes over half our available labor! That doesn’t even include 30,000 Los Angeles residents in county or state prisons, nor retirees and children who could do useful and appropriate work. When the masses are mobilized for communism, there will clearly be plenty of hands to do the work. In communism we’ll all be “comrades,” not a “machinist,” “nurse,” “bus driver,” “teacher” or “farmer.” We’ll all do many kinds of work. Someone might build airplanes in the morning and work in a clinic in the afternoon. That comrade would be teaching less-experienced comrades, learning new skills, and participating in decision-making and political education. The comrade might drive a busload of children to do farm work over the weekend. Airplane-building would not be divided among “aerospace engineers,” “machinists,” and “aircraft technicians.” Clinic workers wouldn’t be “physicians,” “nurses” and “assistants.” Instead, teams of workers would collaborate so that everyone could learn all aspects of the process and help to improve it. We prepare today for the communist working world by volunteering to do or learn many different tasks involved in communist mobilization: Distributing, writing for, and producing Red Flag. Participating in meetings where we use criticism and self-criticism to improve the Party’s work and political line. Fighting for communist ideas in the workplace, classroom and amidst the class struggle. Organizing communist meetings and other activities with co-workers, classmates, neighbors, relatives and friends. Spending time with them, listening to them and recruiting them to the Party. This is how we begin to unleash the tremendous creative potential of the masses to fight for and build communist society!