Why Socialism?

Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published in May 1998 to commemorate the first issue of MR‘s fiftieth year.

Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.

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I have occasionally correlated our current social system to the historical past. If any of you have taken the time to read the top pinned page here I have it started in that regard.

{In a world raised by kings and queens who used jesters and religious men to capture and bind humanity in a gross state of a delusional reality, we have since gravitated from their Feudalism system to another failed system of Capitalism.

In the throes of time Capitalism has been perfected by the ruling class, their corporations, their bought governments and media to benefit their fake manipulated market system, worldwide colonialism and perpetual warring. In many cases these are remaining descendants of those kings and queens who use our intelligence agencies and media jesters against us. That media which is collaboratively provided and using manipulative manufactured information from public relation firms designed to deceive our world citizenry. 80% of the news coming from MSCM is prepared and handed down to them from these firms to protect capitalism}

Merely only terminology and technology having been changed we face the same failures.

{Karl Marx used the term Feudalism in the 19th century in his analysis of society's economic and political development, describing feudalism (or more usually feudal society or the feudal mode of production) as the order coming before capitalism. For Marx, what defined feudalism was the power of the ruling class (the aristocracy) in their control of arable land, leading to a class society based upon the exploitation of the peasants who farm these lands, typically under serfdom and principally by means of labour, produce and money rents. Marx thus defined feudalism primarily by its economic characteristics.

He also took it as a paradigm for understanding the power-relationships between capitalists and wage-labourers in his own time: "in pre-capitalist systems it was obvious that most people did not control their own destiny—under feudalism, for instance, serfs had to work for their lords. Capitalism seems different because people are in theory free to work for themselves or for others as they choose. Yet most workers have as little control over their lives as feudal serfs.}

I found this article within another I'm reading within question of posting. It's the 3rd article of a 5 part series of A People’s Guide to the War Industry from Consortium News I've been following. I felt this article deserved its own post though knowing most people wouldn't open it otherwise.

{The individual is able to think, feel, strive, and work by himself; but he depends so much upon society—in his physical, intellectual, and emotional existence—that it is impossible to think of him, or to understand him, outside the framework of society. It is “society” which provides man with food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millions past and present who are all hidden behind the small word “society.”}

!!!I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes the essence of the crisis of our time. It concerns the relationship of the individual to society. The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate. All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.!!!

{Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.}

{Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.}

If our children are void of the importance of the true sense of a social construct, then they are purposely being imprisoned into the same indoctrinated failed system we leave behind for them. Even as those who are currently interested in changing towards a socialist society, they are purposely being reverted by fake socialist groups to support establishment.