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	<title>World Socialist Party (US) &#187; J. A. McDonald</title>
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		<title>That Price Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. A. McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalist economists are more entertaining than the average radio program. They are always face to face with some profound problem that gives them a chance to fall over themselves in essaying the wrong answer. The difficulties surrounding the subject, however, in no way alter their attempts to accomplish the impossible. They assemble data and juggle statistics with a dexterity worthy of a happier conclusion. Of late, the economists are concentrating on the problem of prices. These, they contend, are much too high and must be lowered to a level where we can see them better. The price of labor power, in particular, has attained a status that threatens the disruption of our economy. Stratospheric wages must be scaled to an atmospheric altitude. When prices go up the economists see black spots before their eyes that spell &#8220;inflation&#8221;. When the prices come down the same experts view the silhouette of another &#8220;recession.&#8221; A price movement in either an up or down direction is dangerous if not ruinous to the social system they represent. If they could only devise some sort of an economic gadget to get the prices to move sideways, then, equilibrium might be temporarily attained. But such a solution [...]


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		<title>Jack McDonald, 1889-1968</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The socialist movement, small in numbers as it is, has within its ranks a fair representation of so-called civilized man. The majority are not noticeably vocal, nor do they have the ability to express themselves in writing. Another section, albeit possessing certain talents for communicating ideas, are unfortunately constrained to keep their propaganda activities at a minimum, even in some cases to the extent of secrecy. Finally, there are those, all too few, among us who have the knack for imparting knowledge and who have neither the compulsion nor the desire to keep their mouths buttoned. Such was Jack McDonald, without doubt one of the very finest teachers and propagandists in the history of the World Socialist Movement. A column in the &#8220;San Francisco Chronicle&#8221; dated July 6, 1968, informs us that: &#8220;Bookseller McDonald Dies at 79,&#8221; as the result of being struck by an automobile near his home in Oakland, California on July 1, 1968. The column deals briefly with his colorful life and states that he was always proud of his one-time membership in the &#8220;International (sic) Workers of the World&#8221; and that he was a &#8220;life-long radical and supporter of Marxian socialism.&#8221; We do not know who [...]


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		<title>Resurgent Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. A. McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Western Socialist, #1, 1968 From mythological archives comes the legend of the phoenix, a bird of rare and unseemly attainments. After a lengthy and variegated existence, a pervasive act of its own volition caused it to be consumed in fire, and eventually to rise in callow newness from its ashes. Modern Japan has a close affinity with that fabulous bird. Playing a reckless role in the attack on Pearl Harbor, it suffered in consequence the fiery ordeal at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and then, in rapid strides proceeded to rise from apparent disaster to take its place among the leading exploitive nations of the earth. Marx tells us of how the capitalist mode of producing and exchanging wealth got started. Of how the primitive and scattered method of turning out wares and putting them on the market for sale, typified in the peasant tilling his few acres of land, and the artisan using his tools to fashion staples of various kinds; of how this primary production at some point on its growth aroused the tangible means of its decay and demise. Something was stirring in the matrix of society demanding that the old method be ruled out and a [...]


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		<title>They Do, Indeed, Differ</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. A. McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Western Socialist, #1, 1960 Why does the World Socialist Party belittle the nationalization of wealth, when it really means the same thing as Socialism? If the government, on behalf of the people, decides to take over the wealth of the nation, what sense is there in wasting our time doing the same thing? Would it not be better for us to get in and help them do it? -W.S. Reader We gather from W.S. Reader the wording of the query that our correspondent is a little mixed up in his differentiation, or lack of it, between the two terms – Nationalization and Socialism. Nationalization is a move on the part of the capitalist class to organize industry on a higher level so as to assure greater returns on capital invested. Socialism is a movement of the working class to abolish capitalism, and replace it with social ownership and control of the means of wealth production. From this, it will be seen that instead of being the same thing, they are two very different things. In fact the two objectives of Nationalization and Socialism could not be socially farther apart. They are the antithesis of each other. Then, too, [...]


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		<title>SOME THOUGHTS ON TRADE UNIONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. A. McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early days of trade union activity it was customary for the government to enter into disputes between workers and employers and simply bludgeon the workers into submission. Strikes were illegal and efforts to raise wages were regarded officially as criminal conspiracies calling for punishment that was often severe and brutal. In some countries this treatment still prevails, among these being certain Near-Eastern nations which lately came close to becoming the center of military conflict between the &#8220;peace loving&#8221; nations of East and West — although the status of the workers had nothing to do with the hostilities. But in most of the more industrially advanced countries this is no longer the approved treatment for workers. Not that the attitude of employers and governments has changed. It hasn&#8217;t. They still feel that the bulk of labor&#8217;s produce must continue to be delivered to the non-producers. But the wage workers are now greatly increased in numbers, in some countries forming the overwhelming majority of the population. And they have come into possession of the franchise, which places them in the position to defeat and bring about changes in government. So that any government in such countries employing the old methods [...]


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		<title>Man, The Enigma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. A. McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Western Socialist, January, 1948 A strange animal &#8211; man &#8211; until we get to know him. Brilliant, in a sense, he has developed systems of production, exchange, communication, and transportation that make the other animals look rather stupid. But, on the opposite side of the scale, he suffers deficiencies that enhance the prestige of every competing organism. While not the only animal that works, he is the only one that looks for work; the only one that works for wages, the only one that the boss can afford to leave alone while working. The only one subject to &#8220;separation anxiety&#8221; in regard to boss and job. He is the only animal capable of discussing his own affairs, and coming to the weird conclusion that he is lucky to have work. Truly, a strange animal. In recent years a number of individuals, of high standing in professional and scientific circles, have made brave attempts to associate man with some form of divinity. While they concede that his framework may have been derived from lower forms of life, they contend that he is, at the same time, endowed with a soul or spirit that could emanate only from a beneficent [...]


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		<title>Workers and the Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. A. McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our study of human society leads us to the conclusion that it is composed of two classes &#8211; the working class and the capitalist class. Between the two there are groups and individuals that battle classiﬁcation on a scientiﬁc basis. They are border line cases. In the ranks of each of the two classes there are individuals that vary from the norm. We occasionally meet workers who have a few hundreds, or even a few thousands of dollars in the bank, or own a few shares of General Motors or Western Union stock. Such ownership does not make capitalists out of them, regardless of the fact that the things they own assume the status of capital by virtue of the interest or dividends that annually accrue. There are individuals in the capitalist class who work long hours in banks or factory ofﬁces without such exposure to toil forcing them over the divide into the domain of the workers. Between the two classes, comprising modern society, the lines of demarcation are clearly drawn. One class owns the wealth of the world, without producing it, while the other class produces the wealth without owning it. The working class is marked by the [...]


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		<title>Capitalist Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. A. McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Western Socialist, March-April, 1942 &#8220;The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political, and spiritual process of life.&#8221; When Karl Marx presented this analysis to a confused world, back in 1859, he provided an explanation of cause and effect in the social world that still serves the needs of our more inquisitive minds today. The slovenly and the superficial will miss its meaning, the sycophantic drudge will seek to sabotage its lesson but, to the serious student of social affairs, it affords a meaning of untangling the snarls that disconcert his approach to the subject. In our material life the system of producing wealth is known as capitalism. Every article of value in this society is made and exchanged by a class of workers theoretically free but practically enslaved. While the legend is that they are the possessors of inalienable rights and irrevocable privileges, yet the fact proclaims that they have very little to say and are hesitant to say even that. Their function is to work. This work racket implies that they are kept busy changing energy from one form to another. They absorb such items as pork chops, pot roast, [...]


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