Marx, speaking of capitalism, wrote that it "has left remaining no other bond between man and man than naked self-interest and callous 'cash payment'....It has resolved personal worth into exchange value." Marx was absolutely correct. Daily, corporations do "cost/benefit" analysis. Through this process they place a monetary value on human life and weigh it against the cost of making their product or service safer. Often it is cheaper to sacrifice a few lives in order to keep the bottom line rising.
How can this be viewed in any other way than it being barbaric? It can not! If you disagree than I ask you, what is the monetary value of your children or parents? A million? Two? Three? Speaking strictly for myself, my child does not have a monetary value. He is priceless. I am assuming that most parents feel as I. But, if this is true, then why do we support an economic structure which places pricetags on our children and, in fact, everything known to man?
Haven't we all heard the capitalist phrase, "everything has a price"? Yet, most parents, through not teaching their children about the disease of capitalism, indirectly sell their children into the labor force upon reaching adulthood. We can not speak of this with any more compassion than if they had sold their children into slavery. Capitalism is nothing less than a system of master and wage slave. If we do nothing else, we must fight for our children. And I, for one, will never voluntarily sell my child to our capitalist masters. He is seven now and he already has a basic understanding of capitalism and socialism. As long as I have breath in my body he will learn about capitalism and it's atrocities and he will learn about socialism and its compassion. -Winston
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