American workers cannot go back to the privileged position we held for so long. Workers who dream that their children grasp the non-productive way of life should realize one small world now exists, and the ruling class no longer can hand us the privileges we have had over most productive people in the world.
No place exists now to run to improve our reducing standards of living as was the case with the slaves in Egypt or the productive people of Mayan cultures who escaped into the jungle. Nor do lands exist that can be conquered and occupied as did Europeans when they arrived here. So our only choice is to change the social world.
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Only a fool would make such a statement with no organization yet existing to support such a thing.
Advocacy, however, is a first step in starting something new, and something new needs to be established to give a producing class “Declaration of Independence," any meaning for making a better world. This new thing needs to be our own thing, a producing class democracy: Not just an institution that gives a few workers privilege over other producers. In contrast, we need an independence movement to change the entire world. To start our own democracy, we need to organize outside the existing institutions. Producing class democracy means all those in the institution must put productive labor in the lead of our lives. Our teachers have correctly stated that the motivating power of all things comes from within their nature, thus those who do the work must make the political decisions in our institutions. |
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May 2020
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