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On 30 July riots broke out across the UK which targeted Muslim neighbourhoods and places sheltering migrants, following a stabbing in Southport the day before. The riots were fuelled by fascist groups and far right websites spreading the conspiracy theory that the attacker was a Muslim asylum seeker.
Decades of racist propaganda from mainstream news sources, which blame immigrants for workers’ decline in their standard of living, have led to many thinking that immigration into Britain is the cause of reduced wages, homelessness, a collapsing health service, failing schools etc. rather than increased exploitation of the working class and capitalism’s economic crisis.
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Yeah the poor are only poor
Yeah the poor are only poor bseauce they are poor workers. To benifit from a totally communist system you need to work your ass off for a daily ration of bread and milk.
Think about two things. 1)
Think about two things.
1) If there were no "poor workers" in the world, would there still be unemployment in a society that needs an army of unemployed people so as to have full capacity of imposing the level of wages, without which capacity it wouldn't be possible to constantly pursue the increase of profits, without which there could not possibly be any extension of capitalist production?
2) Why on earth should one have to work one's ass off for a daily ration of bread and milk in a society in which human productivity would be significantly higher (due to the abolition of intellectual property and the consequent free distribution of the most perfect technology of the moment throughout the world, as well as on account of the centralisation and getting more rational of production and the consequent avoiding the immense waste which is inavoidable in a market for-profit production system) and in which the working hours would be drastically shortened (furtherly due to the ceasing of all non-productive human activities oriented toward the maintainance of class oppression and the most of the post-production activities of today, as well as to the disappearance of unemployment since no financial investment would be necessary for organising production)?