In capitalist countries, a welfare system is not a sign of progress but a necessity born from the system’s inefficiencies and exploitation. Capitalism fails to utilise workers to their full potential—if it employs them at all. Every industry is subject to cost-cutting and profiteering, leading to lower wages, declining service quality, and even the outright destruction of entire sectors through outsourcing and deindustrialisation. Workers are used only for as long as they serve the profit motive, then discarded without adequate provisions to ensure a healthy and productive life.
Under socialism, a welfare system like the one found under capitalism would be seen as a failure to provide for the people. The elimination of profit as the driving force of society would naturally enhance workers’ capacity, ensuring that labour is directed towards socially necessary and meaningful work rather than artificially created "busy work." Jobs would exist to benefit society, not to enrich a handful of capitalists. Workers would not be forced into degrading and precarious employment dictated by market forces but would instead be placed in roles suited to their skills and the needs of the collective. They would also be guaranteed all necessary provisions to carry out their work and live fulfilling lives.
Welfare under capitalism is not a step towards socialism; it is a patchwork reform designed to compensate for capitalism’s fundamental inability—or unwillingness—to provide workers with stable, dignified livelihoods. It is not a gift from the ruling class but an admission of their failure to ensure that workers can always contribute their labour. Rather than seeing welfare as socialism within capitalism, we should recognise it as proof that capitalism is incapable of meeting human needs without constant intervention. True provision for the working class will only come through the abolition of the profit system itself.
Class Consciousness Project.
Under socialism, a welfare system like the one found under capitalism would be seen as a failure to provide for the people. The elimination of profit as the driving force of society would naturally enhance workers’ capacity, ensuring that labour is directed towards socially necessary and meaningful work rather than artificially created "busy work." Jobs would exist to benefit society, not to enrich a handful of capitalists. Workers would not be forced into degrading and precarious employment dictated by market forces but would instead be placed in roles suited to their skills and the needs of the collective. They would also be guaranteed all necessary provisions to carry out their work and live fulfilling lives.
Welfare under capitalism is not a step towards socialism; it is a patchwork reform designed to compensate for capitalism’s fundamental inability—or unwillingness—to provide workers with stable, dignified livelihoods. It is not a gift from the ruling class but an admission of their failure to ensure that workers can always contribute their labour. Rather than seeing welfare as socialism within capitalism, we should recognise it as proof that capitalism is incapable of meeting human needs without constant intervention. True provision for the working class will only come through the abolition of the profit system itself.
Class Consciousness Project.
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Forwarded from 🇺🇸 Donald Courter 🇷🇺
🇺🇸💥🇪🇺U.S.-EU TRADE TENSIONS ESCALATE, TARIFFS HIT KEY INDUSTRIES
U.S.-EU trade tensions are escalating as tariffs imposed by the Trump administration disrupt industries and strain transatlantic relations, with German automakers like BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz among the hardest hit.
These companies, which account for 73% of EU car exports to the U.S., warn that tariffs will raise costs, burden consumers, and stifle innovation, potentially jeopardizing thousands of jobs.
Economists predict that a prolonged trade war could shrink Germany’s economy by over 1% and risk 300,000 jobs, while also harming U.S. competitiveness and global supply chains.
Despite the U.S. administration’s “America First” stance, protectionist measures may ultimately damage both European and American economic interests.
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U.S.-EU trade tensions are escalating as tariffs imposed by the Trump administration disrupt industries and strain transatlantic relations, with German automakers like BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz among the hardest hit.
These companies, which account for 73% of EU car exports to the U.S., warn that tariffs will raise costs, burden consumers, and stifle innovation, potentially jeopardizing thousands of jobs.
Economists predict that a prolonged trade war could shrink Germany’s economy by over 1% and risk 300,000 jobs, while also harming U.S. competitiveness and global supply chains.
Despite the U.S. administration’s “America First” stance, protectionist measures may ultimately damage both European and American economic interests.
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Forwarded from The Communists
While liberal politicians and media were screaming blue murder about the harms being done to those waiting for American charity in order to survive, a very revealing list of media outlets around the world were forced to shut up shop, revealing the breadth of US imperialism’s regime-change machinery and the insidious nature of much media that is presented to the world as ‘independent’ and ‘objective’.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/03/01/news/trump-white-house-freezes-usaid/
https://thecommunists.org/2025/03/01/news/trump-white-house-freezes-usaid/
The Communists
Trump White House freezes USAid
Does the dismantling of part of the USA’s regime-change machinery really mean that US imperialism no longer aims to bring down sovereign states?
Forwarded from Going Underground
On this day in 2003, the US🇺🇸 and UK🇬🇧 illegally invaded Iraq after lying to the world about Iraq possessing WMDs and having ties to Al Qaeda. While many know the statistic of 1 million deaths as a result of the war, here are some stats you may not know:
-The US occupation privatised 200 Iraqi state-owned companies and allowed foreign firms to have 100 ownership of Iraqi assets
-After an initial half a million Iraqi citizens abruptly lost their jobs, over 50% of the workforce became unemployed
-Not only did the US military-industrial complex make huge profits from the war, US corporations profited from reconstruction: during the first year of occupation, approx. $50 billion of reconstruction contracts were commissioned to various US corporations, including Halliburton, which Vice President Dick Cheney was the CEO of before he stepped down to assume office. Only 2% of contracts were given to Iraqi firms
-By 2007 85% of Iraqi households lacked a stable source of electricity and nearly 70% of households struggled with getting rid of garbage
-By 2007, a third of Iraqis lived in poverty
-The US occupation privatised 200 Iraqi state-owned companies and allowed foreign firms to have 100 ownership of Iraqi assets
-After an initial half a million Iraqi citizens abruptly lost their jobs, over 50% of the workforce became unemployed
-Not only did the US military-industrial complex make huge profits from the war, US corporations profited from reconstruction: during the first year of occupation, approx. $50 billion of reconstruction contracts were commissioned to various US corporations, including Halliburton, which Vice President Dick Cheney was the CEO of before he stepped down to assume office. Only 2% of contracts were given to Iraqi firms
-By 2007 85% of Iraqi households lacked a stable source of electricity and nearly 70% of households struggled with getting rid of garbage
-By 2007, a third of Iraqis lived in poverty
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Capitalism is dumbing down
Every year humanity degrades, loses concentration and logic, - study
Statistics show that since 2010, people have become less able to concentrate, analyze information, and think logically.
▫️ 25% of adults in developed countries cannot cope with basic mathematics, in the US – 35%.
▫️ Since 2015, the number of 18-year-olds with attention problems has increased sharply.
▫️In 2022, less than half of respondents have not read a single book, and 45% of teenagers hardly read at all.
This is a translation of a post taken from the Eastern Bloc channel. Read the original post here
Every year humanity degrades, loses concentration and logic, - study
Statistics show that since 2010, people have become less able to concentrate, analyze information, and think logically.
▫️ 25% of adults in developed countries cannot cope with basic mathematics, in the US – 35%.
▫️ Since 2015, the number of 18-year-olds with attention problems has increased sharply.
▫️In 2022, less than half of respondents have not read a single book, and 45% of teenagers hardly read at all.
This is a translation of a post taken from the Eastern Bloc channel. Read the original post here
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Forwarded from Red Rick
Three years ago this month, the dockworkers went on strike. It was my first time experiencing a strike as a union representative. That struggle taught me a great deal about unions and collective bargaining.
I witnessed the tangible strength of the working class when they stood together, but I also came to understand the limitations of trade unionism. While unions can organise workers to fight for better wages and conditions, they ultimately operate within, and often uphold, the framework of capitalism, attempting to negotiate, and reform, rather than overturn it. As long as they exist to mediate between labour and capital, they can never be a vehicle for true emancipation—only a battleground where workers catch glimpses of their own power.
- Rosa Luxembourg
I witnessed the tangible strength of the working class when they stood together, but I also came to understand the limitations of trade unionism. While unions can organise workers to fight for better wages and conditions, they ultimately operate within, and often uphold, the framework of capitalism, attempting to negotiate, and reform, rather than overturn it. As long as they exist to mediate between labour and capital, they can never be a vehicle for true emancipation—only a battleground where workers catch glimpses of their own power.
Where the chains of capitalism are forged, there they must be broken. Trade unions are absolutely indispensable for the daily defence of workers’ interests, but they are not a means for the overthrow of capitalism. They cannot do away with the wage system; they can only confine themselves within its boundaries.
- Rosa Luxembourg
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Forwarded from Laura Ru (Laura Ru)
EU leaders shuffled out of their Thursday powwow and even Politico had to acknowledge that the whole thing collapsed into a glorious mess. Not dead, mind you—just limping along, downgraded from "epic rescue" to "eh, we tried." Turns out, Kaja Kallas forgot the tiny detail of getting everyone on board. If you want to derail the EU, pick a certified Russophobe from an artificial micro state in the Baltics as "top diplomat". Instead of diplomacy you will get righteous indignation, NATO cheerleading, and a sprinkle of "the Russians are coming" paranoia. What could go wrong? 😅
@LauraRuHK https://www.politico.eu/article/military-aid-ukraine-kaja-kallas-ukraine-eu-leaders-rounds-artillery/
"Kaja Kallas had high hopes of being able to mobilize as much as €40 billion of military aid to shore up Ukraine's position on the battlefield and strengthen its hand in upcoming talks with Russia.
But as EU leaders wound up their gathering in Brussels on Thursday, the plan lay in tatters — not quite dead, but dramatically downgraded from its original ambition.
The problems started, several EU diplomats said, from the plan's inception when the former Estonian prime minister failed to win prior buy-in from crucial stakeholders. The process had been 'botched up,' one of the diplomats summarized. Unfortunately for Kallas her plan didn't survive impact with the reality of a European Union where interest in making sacrifices for Kyiv varies dramatically from country to country."
@LauraRuHK https://www.politico.eu/article/military-aid-ukraine-kaja-kallas-ukraine-eu-leaders-rounds-artillery/
POLITICO
EU plan to send more military aid to Ukraine in shambles – POLITICO
The bloc had aimed to send billions in military aid and artillery ammunition to Kyiv, but member countries split on the plan.
This threat of connoscription from Starmer’s Labour Party is an empty one.
The conflict in Ukraine is slowly winding down, and Britain hasn’t been invited to the peace process. So, to save face, the British state is puffing out its chest, pretending it didn’t want a seat at the table in the first place.
Starmer’s tough-guy routine is as transparent as everything else he does. He’s nothing more than a servant of the ruling class—groomed to serve faithfully in this era of decaying capitalism.
Class Consciousness Project
The conflict in Ukraine is slowly winding down, and Britain hasn’t been invited to the peace process. So, to save face, the British state is puffing out its chest, pretending it didn’t want a seat at the table in the first place.
Starmer’s tough-guy routine is as transparent as everything else he does. He’s nothing more than a servant of the ruling class—groomed to serve faithfully in this era of decaying capitalism.
Class Consciousness Project
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Forwarded from Vanessa Beeley
There is no innate virtue in being a labour union member, contrary to received wisdom on the Left, and labour unions are not inherently 'good'.
Union members in both the UK and US are making the bombs and the parts that slaughter Palestinians and Yemenis. These 'workers' are functionaries of imperialism, as are the 'workers' weaponised by imperialist intelligence agencies to foment regime change plots in revolutionary states like Venezuela or the Islamic Republic of Iran.
A mature global Left must move beyond the banal moral reading of labour unions = good and workers = heroes towards a material understanding of imperialism, hybrid warfare and the role that 'workers' in imperialist states play in killing revolutionaries around the world; benefitting from imperialist wars; and maintaining the imperialist status quo to suit their own material interests.
What have we done to fight imperialism lately?
David Miller
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