Comments on: Pay CEOs Less, Minimum Wage Workers More http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/pay-ceos-less-minimum-wage-workers-more/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:57:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: sharon http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/pay-ceos-less-minimum-wage-workers-more/#comment-3414 sharon Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:09:55 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/pay-ceos-less-minimum-wage-workers-more/#comment-3414 ajohnstone-- Whoa! You've got it! How many people understand that the most basic premises of our system need to be called into question. ajohnstone–

Whoa! You’ve got it!

How many people understand that the most basic premises of our system need to be called into question.

]]> By: ajohnstone http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/pay-ceos-less-minimum-wage-workers-more/#comment-3355 ajohnstone Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:15:17 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/pay-ceos-less-minimum-wage-workers-more/#comment-3355 Not one to be associated with supporting the capitalist class , so when Karl Marx says : " An enforced increase in wages ( disregarding the other difficulties and especially that such an anomaly could only be maintained by force ) would be nothing more than a better remuneration of slaves , and would not restore , either to the worker or to the work , their human significance and worth .Even the equality of incomes which Proudhon demands would only change the relation of the present-day worker to his work into a relation of all men to work . Society would then be conceived as an abstract capitalist " we should really heed what he as to say and note also his other stricture : " Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!" they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wages system!"... ...Trades Unions work well as centers of resistance against the encroachments of capital. They fail partially from an injudicious use of their power. They fail generally from limiting themselves to a guerilla war against the effects of the existing system, instead of simultaneously trying to change it, instead of using their organized forces as a lever for the final emancipation of the working class that is to say the ultimate abolition of the wages system." Not one to be associated with supporting the capitalist class , so when Karl Marx says :
” An enforced increase in wages ( disregarding the other difficulties and especially that such an anomaly could only be maintained by force ) would be nothing more than a better remuneration of slaves , and would not restore , either to the worker or to the work , their human significance and worth .Even the equality of incomes which Proudhon demands would only change the relation of the present-day worker to his work into a relation of all men to work . Society would then be conceived as an abstract capitalist ”
we should really heed what he as to say and note also his other stricture :
” Instead of the conservative motto, “A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work!” they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, “Abolition of the wages system!”…
…Trades Unions work well as centers of resistance against the encroachments of capital. They fail partially from an injudicious use of their power. They fail generally from limiting themselves to a guerilla war against the effects of the existing system, instead of simultaneously trying to change it, instead of using their organized forces as a lever for the final emancipation of the working class that is to say the ultimate abolition of the wages system.”

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