John Bachtell National Board member of the Communist Party USA and Illinois district organizer of the CPUSA is interviewed by Sandy Rios on her conservative talk radio show “The Sandy Rios Show” on WYLL radio.
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All of the foregoing should put the capitalist notion of private ownership of the “means of production” into better perspective. In the case of both Capitalism and Bolshevism an enterprise’s most important decisions are controlled by the state, thus vesting effective control, and thus ownership, in the state. In both cases the personnel running the enterprise serve at the pleasure of the state, and can be removed from that control at any time. In both cases, enterprises serve to extend the supervision and power of the state into the lives of the workers. The only practical difference is that in a capitalist system, as long as participants play by the rules, they can derive greater profit without having to hide it from the workers; but in all other respects it serves the same end in both systems, with only a difference in methodology.
Capitalism is likewise advertised as promoting competition and thus lowering prices for consumers. In practice, this is not the case. What actually happens is that large corporations establish a sort of feedback loop with politicians who need money for campaigns. This feedback loop creates an environment in which regulations which prevent competition are passed. These regulations serve to create such insurmountable barriers to entry into the market that only the largest of corporations that have surplus cash for a large contingent of lawyers and regulatory compliance officers can even hope to compete. Thus, capitalism serves to stifle free enterprise and creates artificially restricted economic environments that serve to raise rather than lower prices. Since the only thing that Capitalism provides over Bolshevism is the ability to openly profit; it stands to reason that the drive of capitalists is purely a profit motive.
**While we hate to give these people an increased margin of “hits” to their despicable website (CPUSA) we also believe it is imperative that racially conscious European Americans ought to expose themselves to the very words of their mortal enemies, especially since neither side in this debate realizes they’re singing the same song. For more on the frightening similararity of both ideologies please see John Young’s excellent analysis linked above. — Ed.