Most Problems are Problems with Capitalism

I'm convinced that most of our problems are because of the capitalist class' exploitation of everybody else. These problems include, but are not limited to: rampant racism (especially in the police), destruction of the planet through human caused climate change, the highest rate of mental illness of any country (1 in 4 as of 2011) and rising rates of mental illness elsewhere (usually where neoliberal policies have recently been enacted), divorce (45% of marriages end due to financial reasons, the #1 reason over all others), crime, spending way too much time at work at the expense of genuine experiences, alienation, substance addiction, hunger, homelessness, death by preventable diseases, sexism, heterosexism, apathy, nihilism ad nauseum. If you want to stop these things you have to be anti-capitalist. I'm a Marxist-Leninist because it is the only approach that has not only succeeded in establishing one revolutionary workers' state to combat the troika of capitalism, imperialism and fascism, but several. Many have fallen from the consistent and violent efforts of the capitalist class to destroy them (even the once thought untouchable giant, the USSR, fell this way), but some have remained despite all odds. Only through an indomitable revolutionary spirit (as Che said, "...guided by great feelings of love..") and constant resistance to the forces of reaction and counter-revolution will we as working class folks take back the power that is rightfully ours. We cannot give up. We have no choice if we are to survive.


For those who would insist that communism is against our nature, that we are essentially selfish, greedy beings, I retort by insisting that it is merely that the selfish and greedy have gotten away with their crimes for too long. They have become too powerful because the good people have allowed them to whether out of fear or laziness or apathy. Is it not in our nature to love, to be kind, to care, to cooperate? Is that not how the wealth that the greedy, the selfish have exploited from us was created? Is it not our desire to work hard, to be creative, to solve problems that has created wealth? And where is that wealth now? In the hands of a tiny percentage of the population? Perhaps we shouldn't be so concerned with being kind to those who aren't kind to us. Perhaps we should be so polite, so cordial, such sycophants. On Malcolm X's birthday: “I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment”