Eat the rich！

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— 串焼き＠5Gマイクロチップ搭載モデル (@dr_kusiyaki) September 30, 2021

 

 

 And here is the truth: the climate crisis, the crisis of income inequality, the housing crisis (and so many more) have all been caused by the same very powerful, very pernicious “ism.” It’s called capitalism  —  an economic system designed to endlessly exploit human labor and to endlessly extract natural resources from the planet. A system that delivers profits to a wealthy few while the many suffer, which treats people and their communities as mere investment opportunities, to be abandoned when no longer profitable.

Maybe, instead of finding ways to save capitalism from itself, we should start figuring out how to save ourselves from capitalism.

Of the current, massive field of 2020 hopefuls, only Bernie Sanders has “a plan for that.” And it’s called democratic socialism, an economic system in which the “means of production”  —  our factories, our corporations, and our natural resources, etc.  —  are collectively owned and controlled, so that democracy functions not only in the realm of electoral politics, but in our workplaces and economic life, too.

It’s a system in which the fundamentals of human survival and freedom (like healthcare, education, housing, jobs, retirement benefits, the environment) are not bought and sold on the market, but treated as human rights guaranteed to all people. It’s a system in which we work not to make profit for profit’s sake, but to ensure that everyone in our society has what they need to live happy, fulfilled, and healthy lives.

 

　気候問題、格差、住宅危機など、様々な環境、経済、社会問題の背後には資本主義がある。資本主義によって人間の労働力や環境は際限なく搾取され、大半の人々は苦しんでいるのに、一部の富裕層のためだけに利益をもたららされ、人間や社会は利益をもたらす投資の対象と見られるため、利益をあげなければ捨て去られる。

　これに代わるのは社会民主主義しかない。そこでは、工場や企業や自然の資源などの生産手段が集団的に共有、管理され、民主主義が選挙の場面だけでなく、仕事場でも経済生活の場でも機能している。医療や教育、住宅、仕事、年金、環境など人間の生存や自由に関する基本事項が市場で売り買いされるのではなく、すべての人々に保障された権利として扱われる。そこでは、利益のために働くのではなく、すべての人が幸福で充実した健康的な暮らしができるように働くのである、と。

Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism (@OwenJones84 - @guardian) https://t.co/g9eXIu0zzW

— MediaREDEF (@MediaREDEF) September 21, 2021

According to a report published in July by the rightwing thinktank the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), younger Britons have taken a decidedly leftwing turn. Nearly 80% blame capitalism for the housing crisis, while 75% believe the climate emergency is “specifically a capitalist problem” and 72% back sweeping nationalisation. All in all, 67% want to live under a socialist economic system.

イギリスの若者８０％が住宅問題について７５％が気候問題について資本主義が悪い、と。７２％が国有化を支持し、６７％は社会主義経済のもとで暮らしたい、と。

ーーー日本でも共産党、社民党に頑張ってもらいたいのだが・・・・偏屈で、非現実的なところがあるからなあ・・・・政権を取るというより、風前の灯火だしなああ。