OscailtState Budgets Can Never Serve The Class Interests of WorkersThe annual budget statement is a bourgeois matter. It is the obligation of communists to highlight the latter rather than getting exclusively immersed in its details. No matter how popularly appealing a budget appears it can never serve the class interests of workers. Sections of the Left relate to state budgets as if they are pliable and can consequently meet workers' needs.
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2015-11-01T14:29:42+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=105565http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifDo you know what a budget is?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/105565#comment3005952015-11-01T14:29:42+00:00Mike NovackAssume for just a moment that you get to carry out your revolution and establish...Assume for just a moment that you get to carry out your revolution and establish the workers' state of your dreams. Do you imagine that this state would be operating without a budget? Zero planning about what resources were to be allocated to which public activity? <br />
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Look guys, even if you are not for a democratic form of communism, even if you are for rule by some sort of revolutionary council, you are STILL going to have a budget. If you try to tell people nonsense like "in our workers' paradise resources will appear by magic, there won't be any need to make hard decisions about how to divide up what is available" NOBODY is going to take you for anything but fools. capitalism lives in fear of "the good example"http://www.indymedia.ie/article/105565#comment3005972015-11-02T23:25:58+00:00fredMike, your post reeks of "capitalism is the only way" smug condescension.
ofte...Mike, your post reeks of "capitalism is the only way" smug condescension. <br />
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often the problem with communist or socialist states is that the menacing external threats from capitalist states<br />
mean they end up backed into a corner and having to spend far too much of their budget<br />
responding to external menacing military threat and the threat of meddling and internal subversion<br />
by those same well funded forces, and all the while having to battle a tide of well funded and orchestrated propaganda.<br />
Not an ideal way to have to spend large chunks of your budget when what you really need to be doing is feeding, housing and educating people, providing healthcare and decent public utilities and services.<br />
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That is what often ends up breaking the back of any such states. It's a systematic and relentless assault.<br />
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The menacing external threat from capitalism totally distorts wanna be communist and socialist states<br />
and systematic external sanctions / embargoes cripple them economically.<br />
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Capitalism lives in dread of the "good example" where a state does what it was meant to do <br />
and genuinely attempts to look after the interests of it's people.