No, you’re not the c—word.
Isn’t the c—word the worst thing imaginable?
Aren’t communists responsible for millions of lost lives in
Russia?
Then, didn’t millions loose their lives after the Chinese
Revolution?
Don’t communists advocate for dictatorships?
Dictatorships that force people into poverty?
Dictatorships where freedom is prohibited?
Why would anyone in their right mind want that?
So, it might come as a surprise,
that for most of human history,
people lived in communal societies,
where humanity only knew the word “we” and never used the
word “I.”
In those societies the interests of everyone were important.
These were the values that allowed indigenous people to
survive.
Everything they had was shared.
Leaders worked to make sure everyone had the necessities.
Then, those communal societies
came in contact with people who had different values.
Those people used the word “I”,
and were obsessed with getting a glittering rock known as
“gold.”
Yes, they would circle the globe,
endure unimaginable hardships,
and even go to war,
all so that they might have a chance to get a rock known as
gold.
Sitting bull once said:
“the love of possession is a disease with them.
These people have made many rules
that the rich may break, but the poor may not.”
He went on to say:
“The white man knows
how to make everything,
but he does not know how to distribute it.”
Crazy Horse had this to say:
“One does not sell
the earth upon which
the people walk.”
Chief Joseph made the following argument:
“I do not think that the Great Spirit
gave one man the right
to tell another kind of man what they must do.”
Then, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
wrote their Communist Manifesto.
They urged workers of the world to unite,
because we have nothing to loose but our chains.
But today many workers have
homes, cars, washing machines, and even tooth paste.
Did Marx and Engels want us to give up all of that,
so we might live in a more rational world?
No, they argued that there is a problem in capitalism
that humanity never experienced in our history.
This is the crisis of overproduction.
When there are more commodities on the market than people
will buy, capitalists stop investing.
When capitalists don’t invest, they shut down enterprises.
When banks aren’t receiving interest payments,
they also close their doors.
When this happens, workers can loose everything.
When the Native Americans had a good year
and had more than they could use,
they celebrated with a party.
Capitalists deal with overproduction by eliminating jobs.
The workers
We toil at dirty, dangerous, and mind-deadening jobs.
We follow the orders of belligerent supervisors,
who routinely tell us that we need to do more,
so the most affluent people in the world can continue to
live in opulence.
Capitalist institutions routinely discriminate
against women, Black people, Latinos,
Native Americans, and immigrants
in a constant drive to maximize profits on investments
The bosses
They go all over the world,
looking for workers who will toil for starvation wages.
Their system means that 29,000 children
die every day of preventable diseases.
Cuba
While hundreds of hospitals have closed in the United States
Cuba has three times more doctors, per capita, as this
country.
Cuba sends its doctors all over the world,
to care for the poorest patients.
While hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans
demanded that Governor Rosselló resign,
Over one-million Cubans gave
enthusiastic support to their government on May Day.
The problems with the Russian and Chinese governments
are not because of communism,
but because those governments have
adopted to capitalist methods.
These methods have not only been
disastrous for the people of those countries,
That political course has given
the word communism a bad name.
So, yes I am a communist.
I believe that human needs are more important than profits.
I believe that working people have the capacity to transform
the world,
and make this a place where there will be liberty and
justice for all.
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