facebook Twitter Like Gmail By Jake Johnson July 26, 2023 A group of progressive U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday proposed a wealth tax that would automatically rise during periods of surging inequality and fall once inequality moderates. The tax is at the heart of new legislation called the Oppose Limitless Inequality Growth and Reverse Community Harms (OLIGARCH) […]
Your heart is in the right place, but each of your proposals is contingent on the bourgeoisie agreeing to structural and political changes that only harm their profits. In any case, reform made to capitalism has historically only been a temporary setback until capital finds itself a new way to gain the upper hand.
Without a mass working class movement and a resulting break from the logic of capital, you cannot force the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie to address the accumulative and cancerous economic mode that has placed them into positions of power.
If we want to fundamentally and permanently address things like poverty, homelessness, hunger etc we must trace these problems back to their sources within capitalism and the exploitation of wage labour. Without that, we can only fiddle with the levers and knobs of a monstrous engine.