In its last stage of monopoly capitalism, the whole motive of production has become the making of the maximum capitalsit profit. The state is run and the government policies formulated and carried out so as to ensure the greatest profitability for the capitalsit class. The call of John Major for the "success of business" is a call for policies facilitating this maximum capitalist profit. But the mechanism of capitalist prodcution itself, as the theory of surplus value shows, ensures that the pushing of profits to the highest level is at the same time a pushing of wages and living conditions to the lowest level, an intensification of the exploitation of the working people, a mechanism for the ruin of society. The anarchy based on the private ownership of the means of production leads to the rich becoming richer and the poor becoming poorer, to unemployment and all the other features of the crisis. The private ownership of the means of production and the virtually absolute rule by the executive is the basis of the economic and political crisis. Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]
