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yallerdawg

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14. Of course no one would want child exploitation.
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 02:45 PM
Dec 2014

Today, the labor force is exclusionary, segregated, production/profit driven. Education is used to maintain the status quo and deliver a product to the labor market. If we all own the means of production and share the product, we would not design labor systems which exclude anyone. We would have places for our children, our elders, disabled - anyone who has been excluded should be able to participate to their ability, to be with us.

Likewise, education, leisure, playtime would not be exclusionary, either. We would not be a work/consumer-based society, but a people-based society.

We wouldn't grind up the people to serve the elites, or pick and chose who has value based on profitability, and when used up spit them out with some charitable stipend the ruling class continues to deem excessive as 'the surplus' cuts into their profits.

We have to imagine this new world.

We have to see it is possible.

We have to figure out how we can get there.

Come on with us!

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Hello Socialist Progressives [View all] marym625 Dec 2014 OP
Welcome! mndemsocialist Dec 2014 #1
Thank you! marym625 Dec 2014 #2
Hello marym625 and welcome to SP, our little "Classic Red" cornor of DU....... socialist_n_TN Dec 2014 #3
Cool! marym625 Dec 2014 #4
I'm not even an actual socialist. I would prefer a blended economy Doctor_J Dec 2014 #5
Thank you! marym625 Dec 2014 #9
A clear Utopian vision from Howard Zinn. yallerdawg Dec 2014 #6
I like it marym625 Dec 2014 #10
Of course no one would want child exploitation. yallerdawg Dec 2014 #14
Putting children to work salimbag Dec 2014 #15
Welcome - TBF Dec 2014 #7
Well you know the old time anarchist definition of an anarchist is right? Mbrow Dec 2014 #8
Thank you marym625 Dec 2014 #11
We are all socialists, we just dont know it. We need much more socialism NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #12
That's encouraging marym625 Dec 2014 #13
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