Donald
Trump’s economic advisers released a bizarre report attacking
socialism yesterday. Socialists can only take one lesson from it:
we’re winning.
by
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Part
3 - Whose Economic Freedom?
In fact,
what the CEA authors really mean when they talk about “economic
freedom” is the freedom of the market to determine the functioning
of the economy — freedom for the few to have no limits on how much
wealth they can accumulate while the many are deprived of the
freedoms that come from having their basic needs met.
As Corey
Robin explained, contesting the capitalist conception of freedom in
the New York Times: “When my wellbeing depends upon your whim,
when the basic needs of life compel submission to the market and
subjugation at work, we live not in freedom but in domination.
Socialists want to end that domination: to establish freedom from
rule by the boss, from the need to smile for the sake of a sale, from
the obligation to sell for the sake of survival.”
Socialists
present a break with the logic of capital not simply by elevating
policies that would downwardly redistribute wealth, but also through
redistributing power.
Injecting
more democracy into the economy, taking the distribution of basic
services out of private hands, divesting from the military, and
building rank-and-file power in the workplace would all fundamentally
challenge current power relations. And that’s why the Trump
administration is taking the threat posed by this new socialist
upsurge so seriously.
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