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Who knows what the next year will bring? Could be better than 2001. It could hardly be worse! Maybe this will be the year when governments "come to their senses" and say, "That's enough of war - in future we'll all get on well together and destroy all the bombs". Multinational companies will stop destroying food because there is no profit in feeding the hungry. "In 2002 we'll see to it that the hungry majority of humanity will be fed" they'll say. The Pope will sell his vast store of golden possessions in order to feed the poor; the newspapers will decide they've had their fill of telling lies and in future will only report what is true; and the Queen, in her Christmas message, will have declared that she can no longer tolerate a condition where whole families are destined to live on slum estates simply because they are poor, while those like her dwell in palatial mansions. Yes, the future is all looking much rosier. The brewers will lower the price of beer, only to be outbid by the rest of the owning class who will say, "We insist, old chaps, that as you produce all of the wealth you must have free access to it". And so shall come to pass that we will no longer need to buy what we need, for it will be there for the taking. Need will be recognised, not profits. Now, if you believe all that you are either naïve in the extreme or one of the increasing number of workers whose encounter with the free market has been in the hard drugs trade. The future will not be like that. The people with power do not care about you in the least. Our social role is to be unthinking, except insofar as your thoughts are in the service of their unearned affluence. The only future the capitalist class seeks is one where they make plenty of profits. Or, to be quite precise about it, one where we, the workers, will make plenty of profits, to be handed directly to those who monopolise the resources of the earth. They can only get richer out of the hard work of suckers who are prepared to produce everything and then be thankful for a wage which enables us to buy the cheapest and shoddiest of goods. The passive wage slave is the basic prerequisite of the contented capitalist. Unless the producers produce the possessors will have nothing to possess. So 2002, whatever else, will be a year marked by the rich enjoying themselves and the poor sweating to ensure that they do just that. It will be a year in which those who appropriate the profits will pursue the traditional pastimes of the exploiters who have gone before them. They will lead lives unregulated by the cursed alarm clock, and free of the variously crap conditions the rest of us put up with. Free of the hassle of waiting for buses and being crowded onto trains and working over eight hours a day doing monotonous, loathsome work, and having to scratch about for a few quid when the next calamity disrupts low-budget plans. In the face of this the only practical hope for the workers of the world is to stand up for our class interests and to see that we can refuse to go along with More Of The Same, and start to take control of our own lives. More Of The Same, or a new and better world? Barbarism, or socialism? It's up to us. Jt www.worldsocialism.org http://communities.msn.co.uk/RealWorldSocialism __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
