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needs of society. This plan unfetters the productive potential of
labor, allowing the state to provide basic necessities at no cost
to the individual. Socialism is thus able to provide health care,
education, food, housing and recreation to every person.
Increasing production under socialism means more shared
wealth for all. Under capitalism, however, increased production
leads to crises. Production periodically outstrips consumption
because workers’ wages are under constant downward pressure
from the bosses, who must continually raise productivity and
shed workers in order to compete and make profit. The result is
overproduction, such as in the housing market, where millions
of homes stand vacant because the banks and developers can’t
sell them at a profit. At the same time, millions of families are in
crisis for lack of decent, affordable housing.
Socialism allows for the elimination of unemployment, since
a reserve army of labor is no longer needed to intensify competition
among workers and drive wages down. Technology will
no longer be used as a pretext to lay off workers and increase
exploitation, but will be used to free workers from monotonous
and dangerous work. As the need for production workers
decreases with new technology, a socialist society can provide
more employment and training in areas of human development
like health, education, culture and recreation, as well as science
and technology to benefit people and the environment. Without
capitalist crises, there will be no drastic budget cuts in these areas
but instead dynamic growth.
Socialism allows the working class, the new rulers of society,
to begin to beat down the old forces of oppression. Racism, sexism,
homophobia, and all other discriminatory ideologies used
by the ruling class to justify economic, political, social and cultural
inequality will be eliminated as society progresses down
the road of socialism.
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