Modern technology: Automated systems, robotics, artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles, nanotechnology, powerful computer systems..etc, replaces a significant % of wage-labor and eventually all wage-labor, hence the market shrinks because without wage-labor there are no paying consumers. Consumers will always exist, but not paying ones. Paying consumers need money to pay and consume, and the way they acquire money is through something called a "job". Jobs pay a wage. See the cycle?
NO WAGE LABOR (OR TOO LITTLE OF IT) = NO PAYING CONSUMERS (OR NOT ENOUGH CUSTOMERS/PAYING CONSUMERS) = NO MARKET (OR A MARKET TOO SMALL) = NO CAPITALISM (NO PROFITS).
If the capitalists are the pillars of a capitalist economy, the working-class or wage labor is the foundation upon which the capitalist pillars rest. Eliminate the wage labor with technology, you pull the foundation from under their feet. There's no more market hence no more capitalism. The billionaires are stumped:
The big money capitalists are smart, they're not dumb. They see the writing on the wall. That's why they're becoming "compassionate". You can search on YouTube for "compassionate capitalism" hehehe. The big money capitalists are now compassionate and humble. They're offering the working-class a "UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME" i.e. UBI. The government becomes the savior of capitalism, by sending everyone a monthly income. "Free Money". Genuine Marxists, don't want a UBI, the billionaires can keep it. UBI is capitalism on life-support. Capitalists trying to hold on to power, and keep their privileged social status and control. They need to keep capitalism on life-support, being funded by the government with UBI. They create an artificial market, by conjuring up paying consumers, allowing capitalists to survive.
Our solution is simply employing advanced technology to produce everything we consume, without wage-labor or capitalists. We democratize, socialize production and organize labor around the monitoring of the technology. Human participation and work will still be necessary, but it will be voluntary and to support the system that provides us all with a very high standard of living. Everyone will have food, housing, transportation, personal computers, everything you could ever want, but our work will be organized differently. We'll work maybe 20 hours a week, and if we work more it's voluntary. We develop the modern infrastructure to mine the raw materials, process the materials, transport the materials to the factories..etc. Each person constributes to the system, to support it.
Democracy in the workplace, not just in politics. Yes, that's right. You will work in an environment where production-team-leaders are elected by elected officials within the factory. There's a worker's council or "soviet". The members of the worker's council are elected by us (you and I). The soviet then elects the team-leaders. So everyone is accountable to each other. It's not like working under a capitalist fief-lord. Accountability is important in a democratic, socialist society. This is not communism yet, this is socialism which is the process that leads to communism.
Communism according to Marx, is a stateless society, without socioeconomic classes or the need for money. The Soviet Union was socialist, not communist. A communist society at a national scale has never existed. How do we get to communism? In about 100 or 200 years, when the individual consumer has absolute control, ownership over the technology of production. You no longer need anyone, not even your comrades to help you produce the products you consume. You'll have acccess to ATOMIC PRECISION MANUFACTURING MACHINES:
Socialism is the process that leads to communism. We call ourselves "communists", because we want to remind ourselves (and others) of what the objective is. We identify ourselves with the objective or goal. Communism. However, what will be established first is socialism. We democratize, and socialize the production process. It's no longer in the hands of the capitalists or the rich. The means of production and the state is in the hands of the working-class, not the super-PACs or bankers. Marx calls it the "dictatorship of the proletariat". What is that? It means "democracy", the rule of the people. The people dictate how to organize society, production, and all of our resources. With modern technology, we can have a direct democracy. No one will lord themselves over another, or exploit and abuse others. No more human lords or masters. We elect our leaders and the people remain armed.
Marx never taught that the people should be disarmed. Never. Show me where in any of his writings, did he call for the disarming of the populace? Never.
The people should remain armed. That way if anyone is foolish enough to betray their trust, they will be quickly dispatched. Hung from the nearest tree or put in front of a firing squad. The American people will always remain armed. So who's going to take your house away? Are the bad communists coming to take your house? No no no. If you're paying a mortgage now, you will not have to pay anyone a mortgage once the people's state is established. That house you live in now will become yours forever. You and your progeny will own that home you live in now. The bankers will no longer own your home. When did Marx ever say that people can't own their homes? Never. You can own your home. Truly own it, because as communists we believe housing is a human right and if you already have a home, why should you lose it? You just stay there where you are now.
Don't drink the capitalist cold war Kool-Aid propaganda against communism. We are for the American People.
Our first objective in the communist front is to establish communities or what we call "colonies". The United Soviet Colonies Of America.
The word "colombia" is not English. The word, America is not English. The word Soviet, is not English. It means "council". When the shit hits the fan and there is mass unemployment and civil strife, you are all welcome to live in our colonies and become part of the USCA or you can reach out to us for assistance, and if we can help you we will. The communist front is the political activist arm of the USCA.
Everyone is welcome, regardless of their religion.
I've attached some PDF ebooks for more information on socialism and communism.
