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Letter: Chip Lichty: Right to Work legislation would help fix R.I.
               

I can agree with this picture of a corrupt Rhode Island controlled by corrupt Democrats and corrupt union leaders " colluding " in crony capitalism.

 

 But the " right to work " has a quite different meaning for libertarians and for democratic socialists. In  a capitalist society there is no right to work , right to a paying job in the " job market " unless some capitalists can profit from your labor.

 

  Bourgeois thinkers cannot even imagine an economic order in which USE VALUE prevails - in which society's resources are invested in basic human needs and the social super-structure. Not everything need be a commodity - higher education and health care, for example.

                Why should any healthy workers feel " useless " just because CAPITAL cannot presently profit from their labor skills ? Did they all fail to make the right choices in their professional, technical , or vocational education ?

      And if we get to the point where robots can do all the " busy work " - and a lot of the brain work- is the working class then drop-dead obsolete ? At this point some form of socialism becomes a humanitarian necessity.

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Ed Achorn - PROJO editor