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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Did any corporate executive ever die of spontaneous combustion ?
Under capitalism the very JOB of cop can corrupt . Police work does attract not a few incorrigible sadists, psychopaths , and sociopaths . And not a few just plain everyday opportunist crooks. On the jobs cops are fawned upon. I smile when I see them getting free cups of coffee and free newspapers. Even the better cops have an incurable SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT after a few years on the job.
Long ago Marxism explained what THE POLICE were all about in capitalist society: they are the pitbull guardians of corporate PRIVATE PROPERTY. Modestly , I guess, they just want their fair share of Robber Barron looting .
Of course it is impossible to defund the police as long as there is " hard earned " PRIVATE PROPERTY to protect. The American working class -and now the American middle class- can never hold on to or accumulate much private property- even after a life time of really hard work. Lose a job and soon you lose your house, your car , your bank account - YOUR SELF-RESPECT . It is risky for the lower middle class to play the Stock Market where MONEY magically ( see Marx's DAS KAPITAL about that ) multiplies itself .
Prosperous " socialists " making a modest fortune in Stock Market investment prefer not to think much about Marx's LABOR THEORY OF VALUE . But even the greatest discovery of 19th century physical science - the Conservation of Energy - tells even the bourgeois economics professor : YOU CAN NOT GET SOMETHING FROM NOTHING !
How to measure HARD WORK -physical or intellectual ? SCIENCE has only one measure for WORK as UNITES OF ENERGY - " ergs " or calories . If you want to know exactly how hard a corporate executive , a scientist, a factory worker is working , you take his average body ( which included THE BRAIN ) temperature and other data and determine the BASAL METABOLIC RATE . That is the essence of what Marx termed " labor power " . Did any corporate executive ever die of spontaneous combustion ?]
Former New Bedford officer pleads guilty to stealing nearly $50K in union funds
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Former New Bedford officer pleads guilty to stealing nearly $50K in union funds
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