Slaves Sugar Coated Bitter Truth Rar
Cre Wallace
Nothing could be further from the truth. Under capitalism, where the workers operate the machines and man the assembly lines as the wage slaves of the capitalist owners, cutting the costs of production by raising the productivity of the workers will never serve to lighten the burden of exploitation on the workers' shoulders. Quite the opposite. Each measure taken by the capitalists to raise productivity through the introduction of new machinery, the rationalization of production lines, etc., is a step towards more efficient and thorough exploitation, towards increasing the vast ranks of the army of unemployed, towards even worse slavery and impoverishment for the workers.
As a matter of fact, the Libertarian fight against the state is an utter sham. While the Republicans and the Reaganites talk of "small government" and "fiscal responsibility" and so forth, they always produce just as rapid an expansion of the oppressive capitalist government as the Democrats. The Libertarians too fully support the court system and the need to have a state system to protect the rich from violence and violation of their property rights. Furthermore, the only way to fight the power of the rich, whether this power is expressed directly through the corporations and the marketplace, or indirectly through the lap dogs of the corporations in the government, is through the development of the revolutionary working class movement. But the Libertarian Party is the bitter enemy of all revolutionary action and of the class struggle as violations of "freedom" for property rights. They will only admit individual moral actions as legitimate. They are even opponents of trade union struggle, being "for" the rights of unions only provided that scabs are allowed to cross picket lines unhindered. They regard the socialist revolution and the expropriation of the rich as the ultimate horror. In practical politics, they simply serve as a sugarcoating for the right wing of the Republican Party.
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