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    Chapter 8: Revolution

    By Punkerslut

    Start Date: April 28, 2002
    Finish Date: June 25, 2002

    No peace without justice.

    Section I: End

         We have before us three questions. These questions are important in determining whether Socialism should be incorporated into the economy or not.

    The First Question: Is Socialism Needed? (or, Are the Proletariat workers making as much money as they should be making?)

    From chapter 2, 3, and 4, I had demonstrated that in the United States, and internationally, workers are not being given enough rights. It is quite clear, with a glance at the evidence, that workers are not being given what they deserve, and that Socialism is, in fact, definitely needed.

    The Second Question: Is Socialism Possible? (or, Would Socialism ruin the economy and put businesses into bankruptcy?)

    From understanding the statistics provided in chapter 5, such as how the richest 1% of the nation owns 25% of the wealth, but the poorest 20% of the nation does not own even 1% of the wealth, we find that Socialism and a fairer system of money is very possible. Also, we find that the payroll is usually somewhere between 10% and 20% of the money produced by the worker. Socialism is definitely possible.

    The Third Question: Is Socialism Just? (or, Is limited public control of private property fair?)

    Since the workers produce the wealth of society, they must, inherently, be the rightful possessors of the wealth. And since we are citizens of this nation, we deserve the right to frame a government for ourselves. Capitalism is unfair in that the workers are not given a fair cut. For hundreds of years, they have been given only a subsistence wage, only enough to eat and survive. The luxuries they produced squarely rested in the hands of the exploiters: the Capitalist class. Capitalism is unfair because it does not allow fair and decent wages, just as Communism is unfair for the same reason, but Socialism is fair in that it is mandatory to have fair and decent wages. In that manner, Socialism is just.

    Section II: Revolution

         We need a revolution to end the tyranny of corporate greed. I quoted this information in chapter 4, "On March 14 1997, Reuters had a report on a Nike factory, Pouchen in Dong Nai, forced 56 Vietnamese women workers to run around the factory’s premise, 12 fainted and were taken to the hospital emergency room." The brutality, the inhumanity, the complete lack of decency, of the Capitalist system is the dark, luminous shroud that holds its tyrannical yoke over the good, working Proletariat. It will forever continue to exploit and abuse as long as it is allowed to. There is only one way to end it, and that is through revolution and overthrowing the heartless and cruel Capitalist system. As long as we are slaves of this beast, as long as we are dependent on a poor wage for survival, as long as injustice is considered unimportant, as long as the things which make living a misery still exist, Capitalism will succeed and the corporate monsters will continue to grow and become richer. We do not need a revolution tomorrow, or the day after, or next year. Because it is today that the Capitalist class exploits the worker -- it is today that the bosses beat their workers with whips, that families struggle to survive with poor-paying jobs, that workers are jailed in prisons for starting unions, it is today that Capitalism continues to spread its oppressive regime, and it is today that a Revolution is needed!

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