The problem is that the means of life —the production of food, housing, healthcare, etc.,—are privately owned by a handful of billionaires rather than by society as a whole.
Veronica Mackenzie (left) collects her possessions on the sidewalk during her eviction from the nation’s largest homeless encampment, in San Jose, California December 4. The camp was bulldozed and its residents scattered to the streets of the city.
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Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of wealth and the largest homeless encampment in the country. The city of San Jose recently demolished the encampment and drove the homeless out.
While labor-replacing, computerized technology is creating the greatest abundance the world has ever known, it is creating desperate poverty by eliminating millions of jobs. The problem is that the means of life —the production of food, housing, healthcare, etc.,—are privately owned by a handful of billionaires rather than by society as a whole.
The demands of the homeless and all those fighting for survival point the way forward. These demands are revolutionary because they can only be met by a new economic system organized around providing for all, ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.’ We organize ourselves to build this new society.
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Originally posted on The People’s Tribune. Reprinted with permission.
Photo Credit: SANDY PERRY
That is hardly new, it was from Karl Marx in the 1870’s …the society built on those ‘ideals’ murdered imprisoned, starved, exiled or disappeared MILLIONS in its name. History is a wonderful thing – ? you should read some sometime