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Try the High Finance Looters

Marie Lynam
9th August 2011 at 09:47
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Hello all the comrades
The general press talks of ‘mobs of looters’ (and criminals).

But labour has, for centuries, been paid only a small fraction of the wealth which it has created. Is that not ‘looting’ - on the grand scale?

When the dispossessed (personally and politically) retake anything, this is the greatest crime of all: The word ‘looter’ is the phrase of the appropriating class. The class struggle pervades everything, from ‘morality’ to vocabulary.
Let us not allow anyone accuse the young people of being ‘looters’: For the latter recover only an infinitesimal part of what is due to them. Yes, due to them, because it cannot be that the working class must work away, permanently and in worsening conditions, only to see - as a class - its hospitals, schools, airports, railways, benefits and housing stock, closed down or sold.
Let’s not allow anyone accuse the young - and the not so young - of being ‘looters’.
Let’s put on trial those who have confiscated/appropriated trillions, quatrillions and more, through the ‘productivity’ of labour, collected through the accumulation and expropriation of collective knowledge and human intelligence, and not of through the intelligence of the appropriators.
The appropriators are the looters, and no mistake!
They must hand back what they owe to the Labour masses. And when that is done, there will be so much to go round that ‘looting’ will disappear as an activity, and as a word.
The working population that sees its homes destroyed by fire (as one of the comrade was mentioning, about London) will understand all this, if it is explained to them! This is the task of Labour, the best of Labour!
I suspect that, in London, the working class people who live in fear of looting and fire are mostly in rented accommodation. I do not believe they have many items to be looted. With a few Labour-LRC meetings around the corner, they would soon join the ranks of the Labour-socialists, if the latter gave this good explanation.
Why do people become ‘looters’? I do not believe they came for the the stuff they cart away, otherwise they would have brought lorries to take away furniture, instead of burning it down. It think they want to make the point that all the looted stuff belongs to them, as a class, worldwide. As a class, the working class has created all the wealth.
For those who are not strictly working class and who joined the fray, it believe they know the system to be unsustainable and infinitely vicious. These people too are looking for a political lead. They may be LibDems now, only because Labour does not try to win them.
The so-called riots are, in fact, the beginning of public trials. They show that people do care. That they are not apathetic. And that, when they keep quiet, it is because they do not believe that they have the necessary marshalls and generals for the political battle that is coming.
Labour, we are the criminals - the criminals of want. No, we are not necessarily wanting ‘stuff’, although a little bit does help.
We are the criminals of our want to build society, to intervene, to be heard, to work to organise things, to produce what we need, to stop the predators who only want us as slaves.
It is our young who express all this, because the machine has not had time, yet, to break them.

Marie Lynam