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. To start our own democracy, we need to organize outside the existing institutions What has ruled over the entire producing class for the past thousands of years is a non productive gang. This group is neither rightist or leftist, but it merely has its right and left aspects which are necessarily married together as one because each has the need for the other for the existence for what they have in common, which is to rule over the productive people. No matter their intentions, what is more vital to their existence is their need. Their need is to get more out of us for less. Whether we work for a non-profit, public or private hospital, the trend is to get more out of us for less reward. Health care workers are part of the producing class therefore we need to create an independent institution for the existence for what we have in common with our fellows who make their living providing the food, shelter and sanitation for the people. We will continue to collaborate with each other, realizing collaboration is a means, not an end while realizing it is the end that matters. In the struggle for our own democracy, we need to be more independent from what exists. We need our own identity, We will deal with and make alliances with other institutions as we put our purpose first. New things start with a few mutations so let's start. Florence Nightingale lived an amazing life while being a progressive force in nursing. Now we need new role models. Role models that are not on their knees to some God in the sky or non productive social experts. We need med-surg nurses, advanced practice nurses, nursing assistants, ward clerks and physicians to start Identifying with what we are while organizing for our own democracy. Despite what the professional word people write, the ideal of producer's power is not something that has been tried and failed. Actual producing class workers have never formed any organization that sets this ideal as the first and most important thing for their success. The organizations incorporating as theory this ideal of producer's power have been formed and led by those that supposedly are going to put power into our hands. Power cannot be put into the hands of anyone; it only comes from within. Most of the current co ops pay workers more than most conventional institutions as they allow more privilege to producers. If professional organizers play a lead role or are part of the institution they are not genuine worker's collectives. Genuine producing class collectives necessitates only producers playing a leadership role: With that principle guiding us we will economically and ideologically overcome the elite led institutions that now exist. We will economically overcome them because we will have less investors, and other non producers taking from the pie we create; in contrast we will be able to reward producers better for their excellence in production. These nursing and worker's committees as they exist in most institutions will lead to increased producer's consciousness of the progressiveness of workers making clinical decisions and doing more of the managerial decision making without monetary rewards. Health care professionals, the nurses, physicians, nursing assistants, ward clerks, can take our life-saving skills and knowledge directly to the people, which can be a condition for not only our independence, but independence for the entire producing class. The original "Declaration of Independence," initially stood as a progressive document, but the Caucasian founding fathers of America could not be free to be the masters and have such lavish lifestyles unless people of color suffered mass slavery. This is why the writers of the constitution had the need to define people of color as 3/5th of a person. Neither could the masters be excessively free to live non-productive ways of life without committing genocide against the Native Americans, treating and thus thinking of them as less than human. Presently, our current leaders cannot promise a non productive way of life for scores of millions of its citizens unless we subjugate and exploit the land and labor of the world's people including increasingly exploiting our own producers. Thomas Jefferson freed only one of his slaves. Our entire people need to be free. Only we producers have the need to liberate ourselves. The road to our independence will have a rainbow hue but we will not be free as long as a master subject relationship exists. We must start our institutions by placing excellent production in the lead together with the practice of producers making the decisions democratically. As it is now, one non-productive group decides or dictates how the fruits of our labor are distributed as the productive group creates the fruits. This is a master-subject relationship. One group watches us, monitors us, while the other group is prohibited from surveying. This is a master-subject relationship. When nurses are taking care of two critically ill patients because the institutions undemocratically changes acuities so those nurses now care for four patients with the same acuity without doubling their rewards, we are in a master-subject relationship. In some institutions, acute care nurses wages remain frozen for four years while responsibilities rise with mandates for nurses to increase learning and skills with no additional reward. We don't need a peer reviewed journal to tell us our exploitation is growing for we live it. Because we live it we have the need to resolve it. Already, the initial process for the resolution is starting. With complexities of health care skyrocketing, the required knowledge for being a health care worker mushrooming and the ability to control the subjects growing more difficult, it necessitates the elite to rely on us to do the ruling class thing. This means we are doing more of the organizing of the work and of the people. In hospitals nationwide, the class system is creating conditions that administrations are mandating nurses, nursing assistants, and ward clerks to do more of the organizing, even public relations in addition to our productive work responsibilities. On the one hand, the clinical practice council, nurse governance committees as they exist now in most hospitals will lead to increased worker's consciousness of the progressiveness of producers making clinical decisions and doing more of managerial decision making. Because we are doing it more without monetary reward shows when workers do gain power, the managing will go on without any who are professional managers. These councils in their current structure, form and leadership are perpetuating our subjugation and thus exploitation. No clinical nursing practice council can be truly progressive or effective until we have our own power or real democracy. Power can only come within a thing in nature. Defining, making and interpreting the rules is part of that power. This pertains not only to nursing but for the entire producing class. Increasingly ,the psychocrats and capitalists need our input. Those usually playing the lead role in these processes are those needing workers who will willingly exploit those of their own class. Throughout our class workers are increasingly doing the managerial thing, writing manuals and ward newsletters. Where managers formerly created work schedules, now producers figure them out, and doing a better job without additional pay. Some RNs write worker's literature, telling it more way the world is better than any professional word person. The increased practice of producer's doing the ruling class thing a without monetary reward will raise our consciousness to realize that leaving the professional organizers and professional word people to have the final word on production and social things leads to increased inefficiencies and social decay. We need the elite conditionally for employment but in the universal sense they need us; we do not need them. The quantitative changes created by the existence of current co-ops already has reduced particular elements of the elite such as professional managers, and investors. Our larger democracy of the greater social order will reduce the greater elite even more, thus freeing us up to do the more pleasurable things in life. These councils as they now exist, under their current form, structure, and leadership will only perpetuate our subjugation, thus our exploitation. Jesus is not coming to save us. Neither is Mao, nor is Gandhi or Florence Nightingale returning to make a better world. The likes of Barrack Obama could not improve our standard of living because similar to all the elite to maintain his position he must first serve his class or he will be replaced. Their need is to more out of us for less. We will not have the ee" leader in our new institution. We will be more like the psychocrats of the 1960's, who had a more democratic movement. The success of the democratic psychocratic movement only served to enlarge the non-productive ruling class to at least half of the employed citizens. Searching for a professional manager word person to improve our quality of life guarantees our continued subjugation, increased exploitation and production inefficiencies. For example, almost all health care professionals plus most of the elite realize hospital nurses need to spend more time at the bedside, yet the ivory tower dictates that we need to write more notes. Notes regarding patient care remain essential; observing our patients with our own senses, and knowledge remains primary. We need to create our own institution, not to depend upon professional word persons for leadership. This is what I mean when saying organize, don't agonize." Otherwise these small victories we have preserving vacation benefits and some rights will fool us that we have our own democracy and power. As the class relationship stays the same, our workload increases, our rewards lessen. To copy a phrase the psychocrats use, " we need to be proactive." In that sense, the professional word people are correct. The point is for who or what group are we active for. We need to serve our own class interests to create sustained progress for us and the people. With producers' in the lead of society advances in technology would be reducing work hours to only four or five a day for the same pay we now earn in eight hours; with the non-productive in the lead technology is increasingly used to increase marketeers and other psychocrats which increases our burden instead of liberating us from mundane tasks to create more time to enjoy the more pleasurable things in life. Look at our nation; at least half of our citizens make their living providing no rimary needs of the people. Led by the likes of ogle, Facebook, Twitter, etc, modern technology gears itself to facilitate the manipulative ways of the psychocrat instead of facilitating production. Providing computers to workers which are engineered so we must strain our neck muscles to read the screens is not progress. Being a condition for nurses to be tied to the computer instead of assessing patients is not progress. Using computers to increase our surveillance is not progress. As these trends continue, the non- productive grow. The growth of the non-productive necessitates getting more out of us for less reward, thus the need for the Caesar. Caesar symbolizes the right wing which is the aspect of the elite to threaten the workers with starvation or violence.me workers see the Caesar or professional people of violence or managerial class as our primary problem. Although mostly well intentioned the low level managerial class are those dirtying their hands directly inflicting and enforcing the exploitation. Many in the current "leadership," sincerely want to help us, others develop a contempt for us and justify their exploitive ways by saying to themselves "those lifers can do what we did and climb the ladder." What matters most is not their rationalizations but their need, and this is developed and determined by practice. The practice of putting organizing people as a professional way of life necessitates that group to justify themselves as more important than those who do the actual work. While this right aspect of the elite is a part of the n problem they are secondary to professional manipulators of the people by words, numbers and images. This is the marriage between the left and right 12 Most workers are aware of the negative things about the system that we present in our literature. Finding one person to agree with the solution remains very difficult. Although the solution is simple, it will only be understood and carried out when sufficient people come together having that purpose in their practice of life. At the same time the resolution can be complex taking many people collectively to resolve it. When a few of us decide to create a worker's democracy as our purpose in life the elite and even many of our co-workers will attempt to marginalize us. This is a universal law of those who go against the grain. The peace of mind is well worth it. If you decide to become part of our thing your friends and loved ones will resist. The resolution and subjugation by class society can start with the declaration as did the leaders of colonial resistance against then imperial England 250 years ago. Declaring is part of practice: it is a start. Many of us already have the skills to organize. The huge obstacle remains organizing some producers with the prurpose of worker's democracy.The ideal of producing class democracy, or the power of the producing class is not a new thing. While the idea started thousands of years ago only about a hundred years ago did the ideal of worker's power reach a large number of people. Jesus Christ was probably one of the first known preachers to voice worker's power by saying "the meek shall inherit the earth," or having the ideal that the lambs shall breath fire from their mouths. Lambs and the meek being of the productive people now and in Christ's time under Roman imperial rule. That initial teaching of producer's power, emanating from non-productive professional themselves, who then falsely presented their non-productive ways of life, not only as other work, but in practice placed their organizing as more important. Their power as professional organizers was not producer's democracy. It was their power over millions of workers accepting professional leaders to govern over them. No workers, anyway in the world have yet organized themselves. We can be the first. As evidenced in millions of work places, producers are increasingly doing the managerial tasks, creating literature, using our creativity and skills, to improve production. For some, our rewards are a four-year wage freeze. The skills to govern society by producing class people already exists. Many of us already have the skills to organize. The huge obstacle remains organizing some producers together with the purpose of worker's democracy which in the beginning we know will be highly unpopular. The professional word people, educators, media, and capitalists have incorrectly taught that worker's cannot govern themselves. We are in the process of disproving this. Our social order is now evolving in directions creating conditions for the people to take drastic steps to give their lives meaning to the extent of ending their lives. Whether killing for God and County or terrorizing people of color for white supremacy, more are going to the extreme to give their lives meaning. Those who will initiate the first worker's organization, will be the last to be suicidal because of the great meaning they will know they are giving their lives. Jesus is not coming to save us. Neither is Mao, Gandhi, or Florence Nightingale returning to make a better world for us. We get peace of mind in the effort to create a producing class collective, that can cure the sickness of class society. Class exists when one group organizes people as a way of life and the other group of people provides the necessities, which are food, shelter, sanitation and physiological medical care period.
Our problem of increased exploitation, which leads to stagnant wages and increased workloads is never rooted by a single manager or upper management alone, but by the democratic dictatorship of a class. Their class dictatorship is democratic, the left aspect and right aspect married as one. Although the one percent is part of this democratic dictatorship, it is secondary. The leading aspect of the ruling class stands in the scores of millions. Some from the elite will genuinely sympathize with us, feel sorry for us but need determines the results. We don't need pity. We need our own democracy. Because of their practice, professional organizers see themselves as being more important than productive workers. They label themselves as "leadership" but Cats don't lead squirrels, flies don't lead bees, frogs don't lead tigers, because they are of a different nature. The correct label for those outside the class making decisions affecting us are manipulators. According to those doing the defining, our clinical nurse councils should be part of "leadership" yet when it comes to making significant policy, like nurse to patient ratios, we are left out. No matter their intentions, the elite first serve their group. If they define themselves accurately as psychocrats, they would lose their power. Only producers, setting out to change things, can more correctly define these things than those who write the books. The elite cannot lead us to our liberation, but need to perpetuate our subjugation. No matter their intentions all professional organizers of people, must first serve their group or they will not hold their position the next day. Those managers who try to be more fair to their workers are forced out. The problem exists first as a class thing, not an individual thing. The individuals as professional manipulators of the people in hiring and firing us, cutting our vacations, put their class interest first, or else they do not have a job. It is time we start serving our own class interest. Most professional organizers, don't like exploiting us but justify it as human nature or part of the "market system," in order to keep their positions and keep themselves tranquil. The overwhelming majority of producers accept exploitation, justifying it as human nature that we cannot do anything about. For the more skilled among us the opportunity exists to claw our way out of the producing class into the ruling class which in turn weakens production and disunites us. Only people make change. While change is constant it can be backward or progressive. For progressive change we need independence, for that we need our own thing; otherwise conditions will continue backward. Because those who practice know best and the elite are more removed from production, they must seek out those efficient in production to survive and succeed in improving production. The initial stages for our eventual democracy are already occurring. Time to learn from the old to start the new. To do this we need our own thing. The first significant producing class institution will probably start small. We don't predict 50 RNs and physicians coming together next week to start our own collective. On the other hand, possessing no crystal ball we cannot know exactly how our thing will start. The mutations will start with a few, independent of what exists. Because it will be far more efficient, it will grow rapidly and replace the old. The class that rules will always serve itself first. So while they need our input, our creativity, our skills, the non-productive ivory tower will continue to make the rules, define things and will determine how the fruits of our labor are. distributed. As these councils exist now, we are spending an increasing amount of our time, without pay doing important functions that professional managers, and social workers used to do with no reduction in the number, pay or professional organizers. The success of the nurse schedule makers and committees, validates our ideal that monetary reward is unnecessary to do the ruling class thing. After survival, regard is the primary motivating force driving life's choices. Whether it be in a career or mate. Greater regard in class society is given to those who organize people as a way of life, thus many seek that way of life. Money does not stand as the primary motivating factor. A dedicated group we have associated with were journalism students of the 1980's, who knew if they were among the few that succeeded, low pay awaited most of them. Regard is what motivated them. Higher regard in our culture goes to the wrong people. Productive people are the most important people for our survival. Making a living by organizing people is when the evil starts, the evils of class. Class exists when one group provides the necessities and the other group organizes people as a way of life. In the USA, the ruling class is at least half of citizens. The one percent highest income earners are a result of this class thing. While remaining a problem for us, they and secondary while they serve first the interest of the psychocrats. This is not 1930 when the one percent was the leading aspect of the elite. Because current councils are led by the elite, they are unable to address the inefficiencies and increased exploitation because of class. They are unable to solve the classism and racism in our halls and in our social order. The need to increase nursing bedside time is understood by most yet the ivory tower mandate's increased computer charting which leads to less time at the bedside. We receive commands from on high, from groups with funny acronyms, who we do not even know whom the members are. Some institutions promise acute care nurses raises, but years pass by with no increase. When patients demand a Caucasian RN because of race hatred toward non-whites, we need institutions with the power to correct race hate. How can we expect to significantly improve clinical practice if nursing councils do not address the bigger more important issues because what happens outside our doors levies so much influence upon our practice. $Billions of dollars spent on necessary research should not be at the expense of direct patient care. Now, in some institutions linens sometimes run low after 6 pm. Currently, many projects, including the volunteerism of staff nurses creating schedules in order to combine 12 hour and 8 hour shift, laboring on the same schedule reveals that workers are able to do the managerial thing well without pay. A producing class democracy will be truly representative democracy, where the producers will vote for our own leader. Each floor or institution could have a leader that will remain a producer and meet with our fellows to democratically decide what is to be done. We need to have meetings where our word is taken seriously while feeling safe to challenge things. Those leaders could meet on their lunch breaks to determine things or whenever we determine. This type of practice will be a condition to convince a growing number of producers we can organize ourselves which will pave the way to classless society. Schedule making consumes a large part of a manager's job. If producers create the schedule, we then need to calculate how much of manager's effort goes into schedule making, and that amount of pay of managers should be reduced, with the excess funds diverted to production such as hiring extra ward clerks. In a producing class-led institution, these changes would be much easier. As it is now, the psychocracy increases, the burden increases. Neither does nonprofit status deter exploitation. The increase in psychocrats after their revolution of the 1960's affected more than the private sector. The alleged non profits that certify nursing specialties employ thousands who organize people as a way of life, which is just another form of our exploitation. We see the result with increased costs of renewing specialties coupled with difficulty of renewals with nurses losing money in their efforts to take tests in cumbersome, inefficient systems. This is an inevitable result of the democratic dictatorship of professional organizers. In any new endeavor struggle is necessary to succeed. The reconciliation of struggle would be better facilitated through our own producer's democracy. If we had our own democracy, we could vote on who makes the scheduling. The time could be made during the work day to make the schedule instead, as it is now when some take home and must use their valuable time to complete it. Because most lack the experience to know, they say producing class democracy remains impossible. This nay saying looms as a stifling condition for sustained progress. It serves the one step forward, two step backward method of our masters. The volunteering of doing the ruling class thing as it is being done is a hint of what the future will bring. The full benefits or our own democracy will flourish when we organize within ourselves without making anyone our professional representative. Once someone makes their living organizing people their class interest changes. Many have encouraged me to seek a management position. Becoming a professional manipulator of the people would change my class interest, and thus my need. The ruling elite including professional managers of people have a need for RNs and CNAs to make managerial decisions. Professional organizers are increasingly aware that those who do the work know best. This is a universal law of nature, the law of dialectics. If those who work, know best, then we should democratically decide how the fruits of our labor are distributed and used. The emphasis needs to be upon those who put their work in the lead of their lives. Once one becomes a professional manipulator of people, their class interest changes and thus their need changes. It matters little how wonderful an RN was, it matters more what they ongoinlgy practice because practice determines need. If you are a great, skilled health care worker but ignore your own class interests you are a condition for our continued subjugation. For those who do not live with the increased burden, it is easier to increase our tasks. In a producing class democracy when all the members of the institution put their productive labor first granting time off to establish projects, schedule making would be less of a problem. Already some nurses are allowed these privileges. The material interest to end the master subject relationship exists with those who put their productive labor in the lead of their lives. If the productive people played the lead role in our social order we would have less dangerous methods of insulin administration or less computers where users must strain their neck muscles to use. Half of our nursing assistants would not be on the injured reserve list. The need for four year wage freezes would evaporate and the mystery of where money exists for our raises would disappear. It all comes down to need, and need comes from practice. The professional people of words or those playing the lead in our social order have labeled those with "higher education," as the social experts. Now, is the time for producers to define who knows the production best or who knows the social order best. We nurses, physicians, plumbers, carpenters, engineers, chemists are better at collectively resolving things-whether they pertain to production or social issues. Those who do, know. It is our time to show it. In any social order, whether in Barbarous Rome, Feudal Europe or when black slavery existed in America, it was the subject who knew the social order best for it was her need because she was less guilty. This is why it is only in the interest of the subject to rid ourselves of elite class system. No need for professional negotiators for eventually no professional bosses will exist. Die hards exist, they want to do things in the old ways or in the current constraints of the system, which will only lead us backward or keep us chained. The left are among those die hards because it incorrectly advocates that capitalism is our primary enemy when in contrast it is the psychocrats, those who manipulate people as a way of life who use psychology as their religion who are the leading aspect of the elite . Millions of them and their facilitators exist, and are the primary reason for producers being paid far below our worth. The capitalists were the leading aspect of the elite until the early 1970's . When the the non-productive control the fruits of production, taking from the pie we create, the producers get the crumbs. A certified nursing assistant manual facilitates communication which in turn improves production shows that such things will be done without material reward when workers are in power. Although a significant number of workers are conscious of how these councils increase our burden without creating our own democracy, these committees will continue in their current form until a few of us start something different, outside and independent of the existing institutions. Those playing a leading role in these councils receive a certain regard. After survival, regard is the main motivating force of human behavior. The current councils and committees will not liberate us. Not until we have our thing going outside the institutions will we experience a true worker's democracy. If these councils as they exist now are truly about producer's democracy, those delivering the care would be offered paid time to facilitate production with research projects or experimentation. On some floors and institutions this exists already, but these wonderful things could be greatly expanded under our own democracy. We would not be pleading with doctors and social workers because the class distinction that currently exist for these occupations would blur. No one group would be doing the "social aspects of health care, and the other group doing the physiological aspect of health care. It would not be one group figuring out the social conditions and the other providing necessities as the relationship necessitates us doing now. This is where the ugliness of the class thing is rooted: one group organizes people, the other group provides the necessities. It is the subject who sets out to change things who knows the system best and who has the material need to change it. Belittling those advocating producer's democracy. the master's interest is to keep the status quo. Organizing meetings "after meetings" is a necessity when the staff meetings are defined and run by those who do not provide the necessities. No matter one's intentions, it is practice and results that determines the goodness of an action. The master has a need to be unconscious of who is exploited and who is the exploiter. Their need is to believe this master subject relationship is human nature so they can live with their conscience, while the need for workers who dare not set to change things to believe the master subject relationship is the nature of humans. The master subject relationship has existed perhaps for 10,000 years, a fraction of the time people have existed so the argument that classes are human nature remains false. The professional word people mistake leadership for class. Leadership exists in all things. Class society came about because our species developed the talent to memorize and then record their development which eventually led to the advantage of memorizing developments and recording their experience as a specialized way of life. They did not know that the written word or drawing of images would lead to a master subject relationship among the people. Only now can we conceive of the ability to end that master subject class relationship among the people because sufficient of the productive people are able to use that tool to eliminate the master subject relationship. No records exist to tell us so because our species did little recording in our early existence. Those who interpret the early recording of our species are of the ruling class and thus misinterpret the early illustrations and drawings. Classes came about probably thousands of years after our species existed. We now can rid the world of them. The current nursing councils are a step in that direction. Some create conditions for progressive things like Huddle Boards and No Pass Zone. We can accept it even better if NPZ mandated more certified nursing assistants on the floor or getting RN's the breaks we have earned. Most producers realize that the system as it is cannot fulfill such mandates. As it is now, our aides remain overworked which is revealed by the multiple injuries inflicted upon them by their heavy workloads. All health and medical institutions should be obsessed with avoiding medication errors. What they should even be more obsessed about is preventing the distractions and exhaustion nurses experience which are primary conditions for medication errors. No breaks, no justice, more errors. When only one nursing assistant must serve the needs of 15 patients, which necessitates RNs helping out, will be distracted from delivering meds and other procedures accurately. As for the nursing assistants, their injury rate increases. Because these councils do not decide how the fruits of our labor are distributed, they cannot deal with issues such as CNA patient ratios; their impact upon improving clinical practice is greatly restricted. Activists are labeled being nay sayers but it is those who inflict the status quo upon us who are the nay sayers. The major preoccupation of a producing class activist is to build and create something new, something where the necessities of breaks and sick leaves are respected. The current system necessitates our exploitation in order to maintain itself. The other system, not yet established, is a classless system which necessitates people putting their productive labor in the lead of their lives while no one makes a living organizing or policing us. For sustained progress we need a classless system. For a classless system to exist, the elite class system cannot. They are irreconcilable with each other. So in the process of creating the new, more progressive society, the old more reactionary, nay saying system will be replaced. This is the law of nature, the law of dialectics. Most think this will be a violent process because past change in the name of producer's power was made by violent revolutions. The violence happened when one aspect of the elite organized one group of producer's to fight another group of producers, all in the interest of an elite. Now, we have the chance to organize ourselves for ourselves. If we don't the violence will only get worse. We say no to increasing our burden without compensation and yes to a newer system that enables us to define things, and control the fruits of our labor. As it is now, professional organizers, psychocrats and bureaucrats define what we are, what we say and how we say it. To have our own democracy we must do the defining. As the late activist Stokely Carmichael said "those who define rule." Many non producers say they have a difficult time understanding our papers. This is because part of the worker’s struggle is an ideological struggle. We are in an ideological struggle with our exploiters, oppressors and our fellows who mostly still look to the elite for leadership. Producing class activists will give ourselves the authority to use the word the way we need to use it and not what our exploiters demand us to use. We maintain to use terms like psychocrat, worker’s democracy, producer’s power, let the professional word people and capitalists address themselves to that. People’s Ideas will not wait for the psychocrats to sanction worker’s democracy. We are tired of waiting. Every time working people try to get the elite to pay us what we are worth, we are slammed as "special interests," or "self-serving." Labor unions, who try to get a few more crumbs for our work, are slammed as being special interests while blamed for economic problems in the economy. This is why for any producing class institution to succeed we need our own literature to define things. Otherwise we as a group will continue to look to the professional social "experts," which will lead us astray. Yes, the dictionaries will read differently when we are in power because we will be writing them. If one can plumb a house or take care of five ill patients, one can surely accurately define social things. From birth, we are instructed to dream big. When we are in the lead, we will create conditions for different dreams. Dreaming how to build a better car, instead of dreaming to be a parasitical venture capitalist or word person. Currently, the word psychocrat does not exist in the dictionaries but say that word to a construction worker, and he knows what it means. If professional word people defined themselves, their dictatorship would end as a group for a person cannot condemn him or herself for doing evil, unless they become suicidal or change their ways. We do not condemn the professional word people or our bosses as immoral. They just do not know what is up. To start this new thing, we must first start outside the institution, not inside. This way we can make the definitions and show the world the producing class can be more efficient than the elite-led institutions. This paper is an example of worker-led literature. We do not rely on advertising but instead pay for our literature from our own minds and backs so we can say things more the way it is than any paper led by the intellectual or word people class. My actions in these councils as they are now, is to try to minimize the extra work, extra notes inflicted upon us. On the other hand, we learn from movies like the "Cuckoo's Nest," for we labor in the there. Outsmart the psychocrats in their institution and they will lobotomize or try to marginalize you as they did McMurphy, the character played by Jack Nicolson. This is why we must start outside the institution if we want to create a world of sustained progress. This is how eventually we can successfully challenge what exists as we create the new. Otherwise we just become like the nay saying reactionaries instead of progressive activists. One cannot know the world, unless one sets out change its nature. We cannot know the pear unless we bite into it. My challenge to you is come together with the ideal in the lead of "be a producer, stay a producer, and organize for the power of the producer's. It is challenging, and most remain unready to take to the streets to distribute our literature because in the .beginning, this thing of ours will be unpopular. On the other hand, peace of mind is the reward and you will never know if you fail to try. One can be the most intelligent, best organized RN or physician providing great individual care, but if she continues looking to those "qualified," or "social experts," for social guidance, then they will be a condition for our continued subjugation. Participate in the Nurse Councils, exposing it as we go, while creating something new. We need our own thing. Origins of Workers' Collectives. Worker Co-ops in theory have been around for hundreds of years. Some historians point to 1850, when the Rochdale Manufacturing cooperative was formed in England when the capitalists were in the lead of that social order. The initial attempts at collectivizing did succeed at giving some of its workers a better life but Rochdale later converted into a more elitist form of organization with stock holders and other non producers playing a lead role while increasingly living from the fruits of the minds and backs of the Rochdale workers. Investors or stockholders may temporarily boost capital holdings for producers, but as they increase in number the burden on the productive increases. This is what happens in our stock market when wages remain stagnant and profits soar and the stock market skyrockets. In the beginning of our institution we may allow investors but they will have no voting rights unless they work. The professional leaders of the Russian revolution of 1917 promised to deliver worker's power. The former Soviet Union was organized under the leadership of Soviets, which were councils elected by workers but because this "vanguard of the workers" were professional organizers, it could not deliver its promise. Power comes only from within a thing in nature, not outside. We credit that movement for the progressive things it accomplished. It catapulted Russia out from feudalism, but we also learn from its mistakes. Consisting of only producers, the Soviets or councils would have succeeded. Workers were not ready then to organize themselves. One would think if today's co-operatives were better for the world than what exists predominantly today, no need for this paper to be written. Indeed many existing worker-coops thrive enabling their workers to earn more, and achieve a bit more independence than workers in similar occupations because most co-ops reduce the profit coming from the minds and backs of its producers. The locally operated and successful Arizmendi Bakery exists as an example of giving its workers a more varied work experience with better pay than privately owned bakeries. This is also a reason their product is high quality. . The existing worker’s “collectives” have failed to propel our class into the lead of the social order because none have put the ideal of producer’s power in the lead coupled with egalitarian principles that lead them. Some of collective "leaders," reveal their incorrect egalitarian principles when saying the business side is as important as the production This reveals an incorrect idea. Production comes first, the organizing is important, but production must be in the lead. Some collectives admit having challenges keeping highly skilled producers, which comes to no surprise when the collectives places egalitarian principles in the lead. A skilled worker may do better in a capitalist company or initiate a business unless wage reward differentiations exist. In a worker’s collective, our democracy will more justly decide rewards, pay scales, benefits \because we know who actually does the best work. Because individual's abilities and aptitude differs, reward differentiation will exist Higher skilled workers will have a higher standard of living, but no billionaries will exist, or a cardiac surgeons earning hundreds of times more than a farm worker. Currently, those leading the alleged collectivist movement parade things like lawyer collectives as if they were the same as producing class workers. A class distinction exists between an attorney or any professional word man and a producer. Some collectives have employees getting paid for public relations. In our new collective no one will only be paid for PR, no one will be a professional manager. When workers are paid the same as business organizers or regarded higher who would want to work? Before 1970, when capitalism played a lead role, a small group of families controlled the means and fruits of production. Since the early 1970’s as the non productive grew our exploiters became more democratic. The word people are correct when they say they are democratic, the point is whose democracy is it. The early cooperatives were aimed are ridding workers of capitalist exploitation and to democratize the workplace. They succeeded in giving a few worker's privilege, but have failed ridding the world of all exploitation even as psychocrat exploitation today is primary. What Real Workers' Collectives could look like. The late former President John F Kennedy announced in the 1960’s that America would have a man on the moon. At the time of his declaration, no blueprints yet existed for such a voyage. Yet, Kennedy had the awareness of the principles existing in science that allowed him foresight to make such a prediction. The development of the scientific principles of rocket technology combined with a rich nation with a political need to accomplish a moon landing, led him to know it would be done. Although we know that eventually producers will create their own institutions the exact face of it cannot be known because none have yet existed. We will learn from the progressive elements of the old to create the new, and replace the old with the new. Our institutions will not be anarchic, but will eventually have central leadership, as the central leadership will remain workers. Our success depends placing excellence in production in the lead and upon incentivizing those who increase the complexities of their labor, which is why the egalitarianism of many current collectives fail to keep highly skilled workers. Some alleged collectives value organizing people as much as production. The business side is important, but already nurses and others are showing the way it can be done without monetary reward, not as a professional way of life. Progressive institutions will reward those who increase their skills and knowledge. In some institutions, no extra pay is given to those who work in the Intensive Care Unit but many professional organizers evolve out of that setting. So instead of being a training ground for advance practice professionals, it is more of way to get into administration. This serves to split workers. We will learn from the progressive aspects of the old, to make the new so differentiation of reward will exist. A huge difference our first producer collectives will be workers deciding the rewards in contrast to today institutions when non producers decide. We will question nursing care, not being dogmatic in past practice and fears. Our success necessitates discipline. Because when we are power, health care workers will know it is our institution so policing will be done as if the place belonged to each other. . A great communication gap exists between doctors and nurses which will be shortened when we organize. Especially in teaching hospitals, where nurses, ward clerks and others every month repeatedly teach med students and interns processes like discharges. These redundancies will be diminished when all health care professionals are first mandated to start with doing direct patient care as nursing assistants do. Even as those in our field advance to the level of writing medical orders, they will be required to do direct care, so if they forget to write a patient's 6 a.m., lab draw, they will have the ability to do it themselves. All those involved in health care will start as nursing assistants and may even continue to do some work as nursing assistants as long as they are physically capable. Advanced practice health care workers will exist, but in a different capacity than they do now. No one will just be organizing people as a way of life or just educating people as a way of life. As the slogan goes in our profession teach one, learn one. Because teaching is a great way to learn, more of us should be involved in the teaching. Some people are better in communicating than others, but all can learn to improve their communication skills as they increase their teaching practice. Many peer reviewed journals advocate increased participation of nurses doing varied tasks. This could be one month a health care worker would work in direct patient care, another month doing audits, another month doing education, but always going back to the work, would reduce stress, reduce injury, and make for better morale for the class. Already some advanced practice RNs have articulated these types of ideas, but the system as is cannot accomplish these things By the time we control the social order, no worker will be required to work an 8 or 12 hour days to support themselves. We only work so many hours now because of all the non producers we must carry on our minds and backs. In America at least half of its employed citizens are non productive. A health care professional collective could exist that eliminates the titles doctor, nurse, nursing assistant, ward clerk, and instead differentiate skill levels by the different titles such as Health Care worker level 1 or 2. Certainly we can use the extra time to enjoy the more pleasurable things in life like playing sports, or participating in the arts. The analogy exists for the first producing class collectives dedicated to our own democracy. No such collectives have ever existed, despite what is taught in history books or by any professional word people. First, it will take a group of producing class workers putting the principles of putting their work first with no professional organizers of people in our institution. The initial group of workers, could be health care professionals. We don’t know the particularities of how it will evolve because it has not happened yet. It may start small, it could be a clinic or a child care cooperative or a food cooperative. Perhaps construction workers will beat us to it. Whoever makes the leap, certain universal principles must be in the lead or we will fail as others have: “Be a producer, stay a producer organize for the democracy of producers." Differentiation of rewards will exist to incentivize us to increase the complexities of our skills, which is necessary for us to achieve the new. What needs to differ from what exists now, is that those who do the work will decide how the fruits of our labor are distributed. No one will be making 100 times more than the other as what exists in today’s classist social order. No one be will paid to entertain, or do the arts or play sports. It costs the people to play now in little league baseball, basketball, and no shortages exist. Reward in the new producing class collective will be differentiated, not egalitarian, as what exists in America. Our institutions will not be based on the principles of “to each of what he can get away with.” as the principles exist in this psychocratic state. The egalitarian principle of equally paying an organizer of a business and skilled mechanic perpetuates the lie that those who organize people professionally are more important than those who provide the necessities. These egalitarian principles make it difficult for many of the existing cooperatives to retain skilled workers. If one is working for a bicycle coop but getting paid the same as the office manager, why would she stay. . Although thousands of worker cooperatives have been created, not one with the purpose of creating a classless society or having the intent of catapulting the producing class into the lead of the culture. The professional word people and capitalists erroneously claim the old Soviet Union consisted of failed worker collectives. The former Soviets succeeded in removing a feudal system. Lenin, Stalin and the rest of the communist party were professional people organizers, thus could not give the Russian workers power. Neither will the existing collectives be the first to propel our democracy unless this relationship changes. The ones that have grown, thrive because they were able to give higher wages and better working conditions to its producer's as compared to those in similar professions but this too will evaporate unless they apply principles of producer's democracy in the lead. Health care is changing. The large-chain drug stores employ nurse practitioners to out-patient services. This type of model could be even bettered by a heath care worker collective free from the parasitical nature of a corporation. In other professions, baker collectives such as Arizimendi, pay their workers nearly 30 percent more than private or corporate bakeries because no investors reap the profits that the producers create. In this collective that dots the Bay Area, both work and ruling class duties are varied to monotony, and to stimulate creativity. On the other hand, as these collectives exist in this class system, the greater portion of the psychocrats get their cut, but more of the capital producers create goes back into the institution. Thousands of cooperatives exist in the world, but have been unable to compete en masse with the what exists because most of the so called collectives do not put the ideal of producer’s power in the lead. In the future institutions, more will be involved in the education process, not just a handful. Time will be given to those who want to expand their knowledge. Some time will be mandated to teach. Flexibility grows when the burden is decreased. Currently in elite institutions only a few act as educators, while the rest of us get their bodies worn down, injured, by being in the front lines providing the necessities. Not all people’s talents are even, but teaching helps the teacher learn a thing more thoroughly, thus more of us should teach as part of work experience. During a lecture an RN with a doctorate, said he continues to apply his skills at the bedside in critical care, but yet when asked about the relationship of practice leading theory, he could not comprehend the logic that practice leads theory although his advanced nature existed because of the putting practice in the lead instead of theory. While practice and theory need each other, one plays the lead role, the other secondary. Knowledge, whether medical, or political, stems from practice. whether it be from our own or someone else's . We say to know the nature of a pear, one must bite into it. We do not need to be an elite to now an elite, but eat them up to know their nature. Our teachers did not need to become one with their enemies to know them, but instead set out to change them. Once one becomes part of the establishment and receives the higher regard, one usually want to keep it. In our worker’s institutions, reward differentiation will exist. Not all people have the equal talent, but the mass will have more variety and opportunity to do different things: differing from today's class society where one group does the nitty gritty, and another does the teaching and organizing. In class society excellence in production for most, can lead one into the organizing ruling class. This degenerates the people as those who are best at the work, should continue to in production in contrast to being in manipulation. . Our nation may have the most researchers in its history, yet the recent discoveries are applied primarily to perpetuate the elite's control over producers instead of serving the people. This is why we have the most sophisticated weapons of mass destruction and social networking, yet we cannot build a bridge correctly. This is why as the economy recovers the number of psychocrats increases our workload increases and wages stagnate. So much technology, so little progress. The blame lies with those who control technology, not with technology itself. So in a producing class institutions technology will be implemented to liberate us, not to suffocate us with unending codes and redundant charting. Most think only a fool would write a producing class "Declaration of independence," but it takes a few, a few mutations to start the new. Most lack the experience to know, and this is because most dare not set out to change things. So in the end the real fools are those refusing to bite into the pear to know its nature. Our species cannot survive in a classist state, in a social order where one group lectures, counts money, and the other provides the bread. One can be he most, skilled health care worker but by accepting things, you become a condition for our continued subjugation and exploitation. Set out to change things for lasting peace of mind.
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