My published letter to the Providence Journal , August 12, 2023 : " The real villain in the homelessness crisis is the greed of capitalism "

Letters to the editor - The real villain in homelessness crisis is the greed of capitalism August 12, 2023 | Providence Journal (RI) Page: A13 | Section: News 387 Words | Readability: Lexile: 1370, grade level(s): >12 Read News Document I followed a story about the state's homeless on Gene Valicenti's WPRO radio show on a recent morning. There is no "moral monster" to blame for the crisis of homeless people in Rhode Island or anywhere else in the "OUR democracy" USA. For years democratic socialists have offered a rational explanation for poverty and the homeless crisis in the United States: It is the nature of the capitalist system to create this seemingly evil, incurable social justice problem. Corporate America is not lacking in vacant real estate and assorted private property and buildings which could quickly accommodate hundreds of homeless people right here in Rhode Island . The military and the federal government have much unused or abandoned property that can easily deal with this now national humanitarian crisis. The chief obstacle to helping the homeless population is very obviously legally sacrosanct capitalist-landlord private property rights. We democratic socialists have never considered anybody's private property sacrosanct — unlike 100 percent of our bourgeois judges. Their revered Law has nothing to do with the general welfare and everything to do with the needs of the Owning Class, particularly of the Social Register plutocracy. It's no surprise that Supreme Court judges wine and dine with these billionaires in their palatial homes every day of the week. Ron Ruggieri, Cranston