Causes of Crises That Curse Mankind And the Need of a Socialist World
Causes of Crises That Curse Mankind And the Need of a Socialist World PROOF of the Socialist indictment of capitalistic "civilization" is provided by capitalism itself. Its insane contradictions...
...The supply of gold and money was larger this year than in the prosperous period fust before the collapse in 1929...
...No production for sale and profit...
...soap...
...Not a backward march to horns manufactures, but a march forward to the collective ownership and control of our great industries, natural resources, banking and transportation...
...Crises are inevitable...
...It is fundamentally based upon gold and gold is a commodity...
...Consumption no longer balances production...
...Old Days of Shop Democracy Before this shop stage of production for sale the baker and shoemaker worked in their homes...
...It is this early stage of capitalism that is represented by our cartoon...
...No production for an unknown market...
...Here we have all the conditions for the periodical breakdown of the who^ system of capitalistic production...
...It will wipe out the conflict between large production and low consumption...
...That was the simple home manufactures of our ancestors, a family collecthnsm that produced no industrial depressions or financial Panics...
...And this would be likely to happen if the bankers had not engaged in wizard speculation that often bordered on swindle...
...We have no money to'bhy and we no longer produce for use...
...Capitalism is in convulsions all over the world...
...Population increased and the demand for home manufactures increased...
...The former family shoemaker in the home now becomes a capitalist...
...Socialism carries the torch of knowledge to the dispossessed masses...
...It will abolish industrial depression...
...Each home was a family collectivism...
...However, when industry breaks down and there is a general drain on the banks there is never enough cash to pay depositors...
...Here is the dawn of general capitalist production for sale, but the capitalist employing wage labor has not yet appeared...
...The capitalist does not appear in it...
...It is the advance courier of human liberation and the hof$ of all mankind...
...butchered, cured and packed meat, and did many other things...
...There were no conflicts over wages and profits because there were no wages and profits...
...The total values produced exceed the value of the wages paid...
...Members of the family did not require money to exchange goods with each other...
...Each member of the family produced things for the use of the family...
...The Workers Owned and Enjoyed The family owned the rude tools with which they worked...
...The member of another family established himself as a baker...
...They owned the raw materials...
...No "overproduction" and families starving...
...Other workers started •hop production in hats and clothing and so on...
...The former home worker owns nothing and is compelled to sell his labor power to the owner of the means of production, An...
...They made shoes and bread...
...The cartoon belongs ot the birth period of capitalism when manufacture passed out of the household into the'small shop...
...The owners sell the commodities in a market the demand for which they do not know...
...It will discharge the owning class...
...It will aboUsh pro* duction for sal* and profit...
...the shoemaker has produced shoes that he does not want and which he cannot sell...
...They were producing for themselves and enjoyed the results of their labor...
...Each wants the product of the other and each cannot satisfy his wants...
...Why Banking System Crumbles Li normal times it is possible to get along with much less cash reserves than the total paper tokens used to transact business...
...Workers are thrown out of employment because the capitalist class cannot sell what we produce...
...Result: both suffer privation...
...Capitalism is a system of producing commodities and the ltfSK0US" ,ucfa' 's a commodity possessing large value in small bulk...
...They and their families worked at many trades besides shoemaking and baking...
...First, the picture is not quite up to date...
...It means collective recovery of the powers of production and distribution...
...In 1929 there was an average of $1.47 in money for every $10 deposit...
...The absurdity portrayed in the cartoon on this page Incomes more and more glaring as capitalist production becomes the monstrous system of our time...
...Socialism proposes to recover, on a national scale, that collectivism, industrial security, and mastery of production that was typical of the family production of our ancestors...
...Money had never entered home manufacturers as a means of exchange, but in this shop stage the thocmaker and baker require it as each is producing for the market and for profit...
...Heaped on top of this industrial insanity is the system of money exchange...
...One after another of the simple occupations left the home and located in a shop...
...In other words, when the absurdities of capitalist production bring industrial prostration the collapse eventually undermines the financial structure...
...In the course of time the old family collectivism was broken up...
...The business continues to increase, inventions transform the tools into simple machines, the apprentices become journeymen and are paid wages...
...clothing and hats...
...What the family once owned—the work place, raw materials, tools and product—is now owned by the capitalist...
...Each shop proprietor now specialised in producing one thing for sale and for a profit...
...They were shoemakers, bakers, garment workers, hatters, chandlers, butchers, packers and so on...
...Production for use was replaced by production for sale...
...Socialism means production for UN and enjoyment...
...Socialism the Hope of the World We have seen that the workers at one time in their homes were masters of every phase of their working life...
...The Industrial Revolution Thus two fundamental classes emerge from the old family collectivism, the capitalist class and the working class...
...candles and...
...Despite the largest supply of gold in our history this financial convulsion has occurred...
...Finally a member of the family established himself as a shoemaker in a little •hop as in the cartoon...
...They simply produced things and enjoyed them...
...The baker produces bread which he does not want and which he cannot sell...
...No hiring and no tiring...
...Its insane contradictions are in part vividly portrayed by the cartoonist on this page...
...They never knew the ab* surdity of "overproduction," periodical crises, unemployment and starvation...
...The shop business increases, the shoemaker enlarges the shop and hires boys as apprentices...
...It was then that production for exchange and profit began, but even at this early stage before the powerful capitalist appeared the inherent absurdity of capitalistic product ion is evident...
...They generally owned the home in which they produced...
...There was no capitalis and no wage worker...
...It will mean the •mancipation of tho workers in industry, agriculture and all other useful occupations...
...industrial revolution has occurred...
...dyes and preserves...
...As a rule, even wage payment does not yet appear as the boys generally lived with the master who provided them with food and clothing in his own home till the term of apprenticeship had expired...
...the apprentices become wage workers...
...in this year the ratio is $2.38 to $10...
...They owned the things which they produced and they enjoyed the products of their own labor...
...As the enlarged shop become a factory, the capitalist ceases to work at the bench and the modern capitalist owner, as we know him, steps into the picture...
...Let's consider this absurdity...
...Consumption balanced production...
...Production is no longer for use and enjoyment of producers but for the profit of capitalist owners...
...Workers produce in excess of their buying potter...
Vol. 15 • March 1933 • No. 11
