What capitalism fears

Hemet, Cal.--From the time we are born, we are trapped in a system that is over all of us. We think we have freedom. The real question is: Are we really free? No matter if you are at the top or at the bottom, rich or poor, both classes are only thinking survival thoughts. You are trapped in this thought process.

For the most part this thought process has become our reality, our state of being. This is why I agree with the headline, "When unions think like capitalists," in the June-July "Workshop Talks."

As a worker--a displaced worker, a senior no longer able to work--it got me thinking. This capitalistic system, our way of life worldwide, fears workers thinking freely. It fears when we the workers become free thinkers and begin to think our way out of our struggles, by thinking about a new system set up by the workers themselves. The capitalists truly fear new thinking.

The capitalists' biggest fear is that labor, the workers themselves, might find out that we are the only true value and take back what is really ours--our lives. It fears when we take back our labor, the capitalists no longer rule over us. As we change our thinking, we truly change our lives.

Karl Marx wrote, "Human power is its own end." My whole life has been one struggle after another, just like yours. Our best thinking got us here. It will be the power of our own thoughts that will bring real change.

--Martin

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