let us take a deeper dive into why, WHY capitalism is a
failure for us…
what is our goal? our goal has human beings is to find out who we
are and become that… we must find the values which are us,
be it justice or love or charity of honor… I am just…a value I can
live within and that can live within me……
as is known, I work as a checker in a very large supermarket corporation…
I want to be my values, I want to be just… I want my words and actions
of being just, to match…
I work in a capitalistic society that doesn’t care if I am just and doesn’t care
if my words match my actions… all, ALL any capitalistic corporation cares about
is making money/ creating profits… that is it… nothing else…
if I cannot, given my wages, reach the first level of human needs, to
met my needs for food, water, clothing, warmth, education, health care,
what does the corporation care? not one iota… couldn’t care less if I lived
or die… that isn’t the main value of a corporation… making money/profits
is the one and only goal of a corporation… it has nothing else to offer…
working within capitalism doesn’t allow me, for example, to engage in
the values I want… I want to be just, I am just…I am love,
I am hope, I am honesty… values worth living by… and capitalism
couldn’t care less… my values are unimportant and completely
unwanted by capitalism and corporations… my values of justice
isn’t wanted or needed by capitalism or my corporation ……
my values of love or hope or charity or honesty or honor…
capitalism and corporations just don’t give a shit about those values…
that is one brick in the wall…
by working within a corporation, within capitalism, I am unable to become who I am,
I am unable to become my values, I am unable to hold justice or love or honor or
charity as my values… I must hold capitalism values which is money/profits…
anything else is unwanted by capitalism/corporations…
sorry about that, wife came home and wanted a ride to work…
so what can capitalism, a corporation offer us?
well, beside money, nothing… capitalism doesn’t offer us workers,
anything of value… it doesn’t offer us loyalty or justice or love or honesty…
a corporation under the guise of capitalism cannot offer us anything of value like
the values upon which we as individuals need and depend upon to guide our lives…
a corporation/capitalism cannot offer us those values which make us human…
all capitalism/corporations can offer us is money and that is about the least
valuable thing we can get… for the money we might get means we
still remain under the corporate/capitalism thumb… quite often, what
little they offer us as payment, is barely enough for us to meet our needs of
the basic physical level of food, water, shelter, health care, education…
this is another brick in the wall against capitalism… it has nothing to offer us
but money…… and that is poor, very poor recompense for physical, mental,
psychological, emotional damage that capitalism and the corporation
levels upon its employee’s…to barely have enough money to pay my bills added
upon the physical damage my corporation has done to me… over the years, I
have had spinal surgery directly the result of work and I have extreme issues
today of damage to my body from years of hard physical labor as a checker…
but does that matter to capitalism or the corporation I work for?
nope, it is just another brick in the wall… the cost of doing business in which
I pay the cost, not capitalism and not the corporation…I pay the damages
physically, emotionally, psychologically… with my being unable to become who
I am, in saying, I am just, I am love, I am charity… I must say, I make money
for the corporation… my only goal within the corporation is to make profit
and once I stop doing that, I am fired, gone… I have no more value within capitalism,
I have no other value within the company other to make money/profits…
and when they offer me money and nothing else to work, no other value besides
money to work extra… I say no…I have more value then to be just a worker bee…
I am a human being with value… something denied by capitalism and my corporation…
and all other corporations… who only value money/profits…
I am Kropotkin… and I have value beyond the alienating and disconnecting
and frankly detrimental to my health… of work…
I am more then just my job… I am a human being in a world that considers
being human as being harmful to making money/profits…
it comes down to this… what is more important?
my individual need to become human, and then to become something more or
is being a cog in the machine with no value, more important?
I think my answer is clear and obvious…and why it is clear and obvious…
Kropotkin