"Our politics must be working-class politics. The workers' party must never be the tagtail of any bourgeois party; it must be independent and have its goal and its own policy" - Karl Marx

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[–]Markimus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

How so? The working class are continually getting poorer.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Both capitalism and communism screw the working class rigged in favour of the ruling class.

Marx talked about taking back the means of production, but to give it over to the ruling class, oligarchs, government, corporations etc. is to screw the little guy.

Worker directed enterprises, aka cooperatives, are the ONLY solution that I know of to put the power back in the hands of the workers.

[–]Markimus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed, an economic third position (corporatism, syndicalism, distributism) is the only ethical economic system.

We need guilds for small businesses and corporations/syndicates to organise all the large ones and that give the workers representation so they can negotiate profit sharing and working conditions. With guilds and syndicates we can prevent monopolisation, protect real competition and markets whilst eliminating exploitation, everyone's happy except the bankers and monopolists.