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I'll start first with your claim about Henry Ford, which is partially true. Ignoring the role of American socialists, and leftists, in the development of set work hours in the United States is a disingenuous attempt on your part to erase their important sacrifices and contributions.- The US government started to track workers' hours in 1890 and were shocked to find the average employee functioning in 100-hour workweeks. Various labour unions were already trying to get the government to pass a law that would mandate a work day of eight hours. Where do you think Henry Ford got these ideas from?
- 'May Day' was in fact the result of a massive labor union strike that took place in Chicago when on May 1, 1867, the Illinois Legislature mandated the eight-hour work day through a bill, which many employers refused to follow
- On May 19, 1869, President Ulysses S Grant proclaimed standard eight-hour workdays, but only for government employees. This upped the hope for private employees as well and the fight raged on, with demonstrations continuing on every May Day to bring awareness to the problem
- The Haymarket Affair took place on May Day, 1886, when 300,000 workers turned up for a national strike which resulted in altercations between the police and protesters. Many were wounded or killed
- Two major printing firms implemented the eight-hour workday in 1906
- The Congress passed the Adamson Act on September 3, 1916, which established eight-hour workdays for interstate railroad workers
- In 1926, Ford Motor Companies adopted a five-day, 40-hour workweek for its factory workers, and later, its office workers as well
- The Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act for a 44-hour workweek in 1938, following it with an amendment two years later, where the duration was shortened to hours, due to massive union demonstrations.
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- On October 24, 1940, the eight-hour day and 40-hour workweek finally became standard practice in various industries across the world
To pretend that all of the above is due to Henry Ford is let's just say, untenable. More, your claim that the steam locomotive, the automobile, the telephone, and the computer were invented and developed by "entrepreneurs" is also nonsense. It's the scientists and engineers, the inventors who develop technology, often with government funding.
In 1880, the French government awarded Alexander Graham Bell the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs (approximately $10,000 USD at that time; about $290,000 in today's dollars) for the invention of the telephone, he used the award to fund the Volta Laboratory (Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory) in Washington, D.C. The computers, and the internet, were all developed primarily by the government.
50 inventions you might not know were funded by the US government
Stacker compiled information on 50 inventions funded by the United States government using government and scientific reports, and news articles.
Much of the R&D of new technology is funded by the government (the public).
You admit that unions increase wages, thank you. Don't complain, just stop being a lone ranger and join the union. The capitalists don't increase wages with the advancement of technology, on the contrary, they decrease wages if not fire their workers, replacing them with technology. So again your claims are, weird, to say the least. Weird.
The defenders of capitalism often appeal to "human nature" and Darwinian "survival of the fittest", and "might makes right" arguments to justify the existence of capitalism's authoritarian structure. It's supposedly "natural" to have people at the top and people who are dirt poor, at the bottom, groveling at the feet of the rich. That's supposedly the way things should be, forever, until the end of time, because these capitalists say so. What these capitalist apologists fail to grasp is that their appeal to nature and Darwinian evolution to justify their greed and pursuit of power, at others' expense, can very easily be turned against them.
How about if the working class, the people who sell their labor (their lives) to wealthy capitalists, wake up from their capitalist propaganda-induced coma, and assert their human "nature", their own natural desire for power, collectively, demanding democracy in the workplace, not just in politics? Hmmm. democracy, the rule of the people, both in politics and in the workplace, where we spend most of our waking hours.
It's only natural for capitalists to want control of the government, in order to protect their investments and have an edge when competing against other capitalists. They want laws to be passed that serve their vested interests. Yes indeed, it's only "natural", it's survival of the fittest. Well what NATURALLY occurs when the working class (95% of the population), wakes up from their capitalist-induced slumber and ask:
" Hey, why are we allowing these rich folks to own and control the means of production, through which we produce all of the products that we need to consume? Why should we be consigned to a life of drudgery, working for capitalist lords (authoritarian poopoo heads), that treat us like slaves and only care about making money, at our expense? We produce $2000 worth of products daily and these capitalist fief-lords, only pay us $100 dollars a day and we bring home about $80 dollars daily after taxes and other expenses. Why should we produce all of the stuff that we consume, under the heel of these rich authoritarian jerks, who dehumanize us, treating us like cogs in a machine? Why should we live one or two paychecks away from homelessness, when we can live in a society where there's no more homelessness and where we can all own the means (facilities, machines, equipment, vehicles..etc) of production together?"
The people take the reins of government, the state, off of the hands of the rich plutocrats and oligarchs, and rule themselves. We reform, re-create a government, a state, that serves the interests of the public good (our interests), and we assert our human rights and dignity, irrespective of how the rich capitalists feel about it. We don't give a hoot how they feel about it, this is "survival of the fittest", "might makes right", and "Darwinian evolution". The people, working together, are the fittest and mightiest, not the capitalists. The capitalist lords are going to start crying, "mommy mommy", playing the victims, like they always do. They've been victimizing, exploiting, and murdering people for centuries for the sake of their profits and power.
The government is a social apparatus, organized by the people, to manage their large-scale, socioeconomic, civil affairs and projects. It's a tool, an instrument that we use to create a civilization, a large community. We can organize our labor, and our production of the products and services that we use without capitalist lords, without authoritarianism and exploitation. We can establish a true democracy, without these big money interests constantly trying to subvert and corrupt it. This is a revolutionary, American socialist state, that is led by working-class, American revolutionaries elected by the working class through people's councils ("soviets"). We use words like "tariffs", an Arabic word, and words like "Sheriff", another Arabic word. We can use the Russian word "soviet". It pisses off the capitalist lords and it recognizes those who came before us. It torments and triggers the capitalists and their guard dogs, so we love red flags, hammers, and sickles. They hate it, so we love it.
Peaceful socialist activists like myself, spreading the word to the people, are first ignored and laughed at, called "freaks" and idiots. Then people start waking up, and joining the socialist movement and eventually the capitalist feel threatened and begin their campaign to destroy the people's movement. The capitalists aren't going to relinquish their power without a struggle. That's human nature. In the end, the people will win, and the kings and nobles, the fief-lords, and the capitalists lose.
UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA
Communist Front Party - USSA
Joh_13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Joh_13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Joh_15:12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
Joh_15:17 These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
As I have loved you..
Joh_17:21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
Joh_17:22 And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
Joh_17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
Mat 25:42 for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;
Mat 25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Mat 25:44 Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Mat 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me.
Mat 25:46 And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.
Act 2:44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
Act 2:45 and they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all, according as any man had need.
Act 4:32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and soul: and not one of them said that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Act 4:33 And with great power gave the apostles their witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
Act 4:34 For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
Act 4:35 and laid them at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto each, according as any one had need.
Mar_10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mar 10:26 And they were astonished exceedingly, saying unto him, Then who can be saved?
Mar 10:27 Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.
Mar 10:28 Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
Mar 10:29 Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the gospel's sake,
Mar 10:30 but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Mar 10:31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
Why would a Christian pursue riches in this world, when Jesus says that the rich hardly enter the kingdom of YHWH?
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.
Mat 6:22 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!
Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
Mat 6:26 Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?
Mat 6:27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
Mat 6:28 And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Mat_13:22 And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Mar_4:19 and the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isa 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Isa 58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearward.
Isa 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;
Isa 58:10 and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday;
Isa 58:11 and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Isa 58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
If the church refuses to do its job, due to its inordinate love for mammon (money), then YHWH will employ socialists to do it. He used atheists to establish zionism in the 19th century and resettle the land of Israel with Jews, and He will use socialists, whether they're atheists or theists, to establish His kingdom on Earth. You can be a Christian and a communist, just as you can be a Christian and a zionist. So don't allow the capitalist propaganda to brainwash you. I say this to the religious conservatives who erroneously equate Christianity with capitalism. You can be a Christian and a Communist, don't believe those who tell you otherwise.
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