tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30608474.post115195801898039866..comments2024-03-09T10:17:03.382+00:00Comments on John Molyneux: The Revolutionary Role of the Working ClassJohn Molyneuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12505576725875193235noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30608474.post-72536114766000522272007-07-28T04:18:00.000+00:002007-07-28T04:18:00.000+00:00I have two questions for you.What does socialism p...I have two questions for you.<BR/><BR/>What does socialism promise to the working class? Why would a worker want socialism?<BR/><BR/>As you wrote, "when the working class takes power it remains the producing class in society". What we have seen in socialist countries in the past was exactly what you wrote. <BR/><BR/>It is true that the working class overthrown their exploiters in former socialist countries. However, who replaced them? Working people? <BR/><BR/>I think that the petty bourgeoisie replaces old exploiters in the name of working class, in socialist countries. Because they are educated and cultured people, they are able to become communist leaders in socialist countries.<BR/><BR/>Then, there starts a new kind of exploitation; exploitation of working class by petty bourgeois elements in communist party. <BR/><BR/>Do you expect that an highschool dropout, poor miner would compete with an (say) engineer in "democratic" elections? Or, do you expect that all workers would graduate from university and still remain to be miners in socilalist countries? <BR/><BR/>In my opinion, a worker must be privileged in a socialist society, like a bourgeois is in a capitalist society. I do not think that you assume that the division between the white collar people (I call them petty bourgeoise even though they have nothing to sell but their labor because they do not feel that they are workers. If you do not believe me, you can ask your doc) and the blue collar people will be overthrown overnight. So, should not a blue collar guy make more money then a doctor makes in a socialist society to be fair? <BR/><BR/>If communists are honest, they have to promise the working class that they will be privileged in a socialist society, since socialist society is not a classless (communist) society. <BR/><BR/>You wrote that there will be "no class below" working class in socialism. That is true. However, if an engineer makes more than a construction worker makes in a socialist society, that means there will be some people above working class anyway.901https://www.blogger.com/profile/16703477071537730276noreply@blogger.com