To the good comrades proposition: <<On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 04:53 PM, Barry Brooks wrote:
> > we should make everyone a capitalist>> I wrote as a rejoinder: <<Impossible. Capitalism, predicated upon paying the workers less than the value they add, prohibits such a panacea. What the comrade is proposing amounts to saying A is exploited by B who, exploits C who exploits A. <<Voodoo economics. A soft-shoe shuffle with the ruling class playing the tune.>> Yet, to a most minor extent, his proposition it is not only possible, it is a correct assessment of an occurrence that happens hundreds of millions of times each day, every day: All workers who place a portion of their wherewithal in an interest-bearing account--e.g. a savings account--receive as an "an unearned distribution, interest. A 'rent', if you will. That interest could only occur at the expense of the workers of profit earning enterprises; and is then 'shared', by the owners of such, through re-payments to those who have lent financial assistance, e.g. loans, secured so as to initiate and/or perpetuate such endeavors. The same is so, and especially so, with the minor holdings of interest bearing bonds and/or stock certificates purchased by members of our class with the hopes that their investeds might be successful, i.e. profit-producing--nee surplus-value exploited--just so by paying the workers less than the value added by their labor. In such cases, we account-depositors/bond holders and minor stock marketeers are not capitalists but are , indeed, acting as capitalists. Unearned revenue, in this way, allies us with the financial interests of a substantial portion of our class with those of our class enemies, the bourgeoisie. Crumbs from their tables, parceled out parsimoniously, to attract, reward and peacefully satiate us as the lap dogs of the ruling class. JAI -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41199): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41199 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118426568/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
