FOR MAY 1ST 2000 NO TO PRIVATISATION - YES TO SOCIAL COMMUNITIES! REPLACING CAPITALISM WITH REGIONALLY-BASED SOCIALIST SOCIETY IS THE ONLY WAY TO SOLVE THE SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS. WORLD CAPITALISM AND NEOLIBEREALISM HAVE ENDANGERED THE FUTURE OF THE MANKIND. DEMOCRACY MAY BE DISAPPEARING BUT THE GROWING SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PEOPLE�S MOVEMENTS REFLECTS THE SHORTCOMING OF DEMOCRACY ITSELF. HOWEVER, NO PROGRESS IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT RELIABLE THEORY BEING PUT INTO PRACTICE. Capitalism has now reached the imperial phase. Instead of producing surplus value for one and all it causes only increasing inequality and unjustice for many and even greater wealth and power for the few. Capitalism is based on the utopian ideal of eternal economic growth which only proves in everyday life to be a mathematical impossibility. A system based on capital, which teems with contradiction both manifestly and internally, has caused uncontrolled economic and political chaos leading to social and material devastation. The poverty in the world increases explosively. Capitalist top organizations IMF and World Bank speak of forgiving of debts to the underdeveloped areas of the world. Unbelievable hypocrisy. It is self-evident that there is no money to pay the debts. Billions of people would not live in misery without robbery of their natural riches and without coercive import of western techno-culture. The possibe new help is usually connected with political terms in order to subjucate the third world under the political control of capitalist world dictatorship. It is blackmailing. Speaking of democracy by capitalist countries in this connection is to be ignored. Underdeveloped countries with natural riches have usually dictatory regimes supported by USA. The capitalist concept of economic growth is strange indeed. For instance; expansive wars or natural catastrophies can only spell profit for business people and as such they are welcomed by capitalism! The only way to abolish capitalism is to replace it by using the tried and test means of socialist revolution. No other realistic alternatives have appeared so far. In socialism the political power belongs to the People. Can the world is governed by corporation's head offices'? Whose staff are not elected by the People? In a world run by corporations elections become meaningless. The real political power has been taken from the local organs and into the capital cities. The voices of citizens and small entrepeneurs have been silenced while the ownership of the big corporations is concentrated daily into fewer and yet fewer hands. Witness the recent merger of the twin giants AOL and Time-Warner for example. We are used to calling the traditional political representative systems 'democracies' but does this idea correspond with reality today? These parliamentary-type organisations are travesties of democracy. Under the guise of neoliberalism unscrupulous parliamentary policies are carried out while the political left have been in practice all but eliminated. The signifigance of representative organisations and even elections themselves in all the political bodies is disappearing. Can democracy be realised through elections which are without genuine content? The unbridled power of money coupled with an almost absolute media monopoly reduce elections into a tragi-comedy. Instead of organs elected by people the real political power is exercised by officials contolled by big money both at the national and on international levels. The old-fashioned electoral and representative systems serve the interests of the ruling class. In elections the candidates are nomintaed behind closed doors in party offices co-ordinated far from the ground-level members. Only pro-establishment people can nominate candidates while any real oppositon is expected to become mere leafleteers without any say in how things are done. Along with opposition even the remnants of democracy have disappeared. Real democracy becomes possible only through means of a regional grassroots representative system. Elections will only be democratic when the People themselves nominate the candidates and the elections are carried out without media manipulation. The revolutionary goal is a society owned and run by the workers. The worker's state works best through regional councils. In practice the councils of the 'upper' level of the system is politically and judicially responsible to the 'lower' level and not the other way round as it is today. The hierachical social pyramid of power is standing on its head! It is our mission to turn it the right way up! In the ancient history only the most capable people were the elected leaders. Nowadays, if we had a well-planned, modern council system it would be possible to actualise this very same principle. In the council system the highest level is represented by the Supreme Council but it is servant for the lower councils unlike the character of a parliament that is simply a tool of the ruling class. At the global level they say that the United Nations represents all the people in the world. It is not true. The UN represents governments, which usually do not represent the People. Inequality and injustice grow worldwide. One crucial reason for this is that the UN in fact works as a lackey of imperial capitalism. The UN and other multinational systems have no contact with ordinary people. Honouring the People�s basic rights and freedoms are only empty words in flowery declarations with nothing to show for it. In the commercial world a human being is reduced to material or monetary values but because of the true human values sacred private property remains beyond our reach. The means of production and distribution of goods must be transferred to the worldwide control of workers. Speculations with stocks and options must be stopped absolutely. Small business people should be encouraged play their part but the intense concentration of ownership of the type we see today must be denied by law. Capitalism cannot simply be abolished by plain discussions or by parliamentary election methods. The laws of a bourgeois state have been designed to maintain the integrity of the bourgeoise state. Thus on the way to socialism the People are commanded to walk a tightrope not of their own making. Everywhere, but in the first place in the third world it is necessary to establish people�s committees to take the soil and means of production under democratic control. The trade of future must be based on real surplus value and on barter economy, not on speculative capitalist values. Socialism has many faces and there is no ready made all-encompassing exact model for us to emulate to bring about a successful system. Yet having learned from the past we can create the necessary guidlines for each particular situation. Depending only on ourselves and asking nothing of our rulers it is possible to reach our set goals. Our comrades have done great work in Seattle and in Washington recently while at the state level of anti-imperialist bases we have for instance Cuba, Libya and North Korea. We have made a good start now let us press on. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
