Forum Post: Raise Class Consciousness in your neighborhood!

Talk to your local unions! Talk to people in your schools, talk to people in your churches! Talk to employees, bring your workplace to Wall Street! We are all affected. There are two classes, the possessed and the dispossessed, and we are seeing that daily in our homes and workplaces, when once it was an off-limits theory relegated to academia.

There are NOT only two alternatives: what we have now vs actually existing socialism (as in the eastern bloc). People--workers, not central planning--can be directly involved in the decisions that are currently made by investors. We want to talk about guaranteed income, we want to talk about participatory economics in which the workers contribute to a plan. We want to admit the shortcomings of a representative democracy and talk about a participatory democracy. As it is now, we cannot remove politicians who are backed by huge sums of money and apparently "grassroots" campaigns which are actually funded by huge sums of money coming from concentrated--centralized--sources. Marx foresaw this abuse of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie--the investors turn the exploited against the investor's other enemies--as when, as an obvious example, the Koch brothers fund grassroots campaigns to get rich and poor alike to support the candidates most amenable to the interests of corporations. The point is NOT just to temporarily alleviate unemployment or patch a recession--but to get rid of the system that necessarily tends toward such variable crises.