Over the past few months, I have been publishing a podcast on working class issues. Yet I returned to Sparking The Left because the number of listens were very low. But in some episodes I began with editorials trying to convey the radical-leftist approach. So I’ll be posting a few of the essays here, in easy to understand language, to outline STL’s far-left point of view:
As I have stated above, this blog now comes from a radical leftist point of view. And I know what people think of when hearing of far-left governments:
- Stalin
- Gulags
- Purges
- Mass starvation
But those are results of authoritarianism rather than a radical-leftist government (another post for another time).
A true form of socialism, much less communism, has yet to be practiced in history. And what a true form of a radical leftist system is about is putting power in the hands of the workers. Workers should own the companies they work for because they are the ones who are engaged in the labor.
Right now major stock holders on Wall Street own and control the factories and corporations. But they do nothing but sit and collect the profits while we get the crumbs. They don’t unload trucks, sort freight, work a cash register, fill orders, or what-have-you, for often more tha
n 40 hours a week. The fruits of our labor have been usurped from the rightful owners; and that is us, the working class.
Now, I hear you saying, “How can a corrupt system like ours ever turn over all of the power to the workers?”
The answer is we smash the current capitalist oligarchy; or our so-called democratic system.
It must go.
Now which form of a far-left government we construct is up for debate. And in all honesty, I’m not sure which one it should actually be. But what I do believe right now is socialism is the best form of government we have available to us at this time.
So, in general, we must leave behind the Gulags, purges, and mass starvation, and enact a socialist government. Though it sounds extreme to complete this feat, but our current so-called democratic system must be smashed.
Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
In Solidarity,
