From: Julio Huato raghu wrote:

> I agree and I think Moore is smart for avoiding the "c" word. He talks
> in code so that more people get to listen to him etc. Good for him.

Right.  I'd also go after "freedom."  We need to replace capitalism
with a free and democratic economy, and then describe a communist
society.

^^^^^
CB: Yes on "freedom". That's our word. The American enslaved Africans
and Civil Rights movement had "freedom" as its main goal. But I
digress.

On freedom we must make the basic materialist argument that in
capitalism, there is no freedom  if you don't have a job or enough
income to get the basic material necessities - decent food, decent
shelter, decent clothes, decent health care, decent recreation, decent
education, etc.  "Freedom" to sleep under a bridge is not freedom.
You can't enjoy all the wonderful American freedoms if you don't have
a right to a job or income.

In capitalism,  where the basic means of production (oops watch that
terminology , Charles) are denied to the vast majority,  that majority
_must_ be given jobs or income as a right , because they can't produce
their own necessities.

See my draft 28 Amendment to the US Constitution
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