Hi
I’m interested in finding out more about Anarchist Communism, but can’t get my head around how it works. I currently work for a small company of about 80 people, if we were all to get paid the same wage, how does that translate to the current MDs who own the company. They currently earn much more than anyone else. Why would they carry that responsibility for my wage.
Cheers
LP
In an anarchist/communist world there would be no MD in your workplace. The workplace would be run collectively by all who labour there. You would all, in effect, be the MD.
Ideally as well the future society will have no need for wages as a measure of ones worth/contribution to society. Each person should, by right of birth, have access to a home, to enough food, to education and to full health care. These things should not be dependent upon the role a person fulfils within society, at least they shouldn’t be within any civilised society.
As anarchist communists we recognise that each person within society can have a valuable role to play and that the labour of the boot maker is as valuable as that of the brain surgeon. The contribution of both to society is invaluable, as is the contribution of the parent, the teacher, the mechanic. Heck, even philosophers and poets contribute.
Freed from the need to sell ones labour for a wage we will be able to pursue all manner of tasks simply because we want to.
How many more, and better, doctors and physicists will we have if people do not have to get into vast amounts of debt to train in a skill that benefits us all?
Capitalism hinders human progress and only seeks profit rather than improving the quality of life for all on this planet.
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Lexus Panther // April 6, 2009 at 8:31 pm |
Hi
I’m interested in finding out more about Anarchist Communism, but can’t get my head around how it works. I currently work for a small company of about 80 people, if we were all to get paid the same wage, how does that translate to the current MDs who own the company. They currently earn much more than anyone else. Why would they carry that responsibility for my wage.
Cheers
LP
welshboi // April 7, 2009 at 11:01 am |
In an anarchist/communist world there would be no MD in your workplace. The workplace would be run collectively by all who labour there. You would all, in effect, be the MD.
Ideally as well the future society will have no need for wages as a measure of ones worth/contribution to society. Each person should, by right of birth, have access to a home, to enough food, to education and to full health care. These things should not be dependent upon the role a person fulfils within society, at least they shouldn’t be within any civilised society.
As anarchist communists we recognise that each person within society can have a valuable role to play and that the labour of the boot maker is as valuable as that of the brain surgeon. The contribution of both to society is invaluable, as is the contribution of the parent, the teacher, the mechanic. Heck, even philosophers and poets contribute.
Freed from the need to sell ones labour for a wage we will be able to pursue all manner of tasks simply because we want to.
How many more, and better, doctors and physicists will we have if people do not have to get into vast amounts of debt to train in a skill that benefits us all?
Capitalism hinders human progress and only seeks profit rather than improving the quality of life for all on this planet.