AuRomin wrote:It is a goal under the assumption that members of the working class won't abuse other members of the working class as the bourgeoisie do.
"Under capitalism, man exploits man; under communism, it's just the opposite." -- JK Galbraith
The bourgeoisie per se only have the POWER to abuse the working class to the extent that they own
privileges. I.e., the working class can only be abused because their rights to liberty have been removed by force and made into the private property of the privileged, especially landowners. Because Marxism falsely pretends there is no important difference between owning land and owning capital, it incorrectly concludes that because landowning enables abuse of the working class, so does owning capital. The difference is very easy to explain and to understand, but socialists consciously and deliberately CHOOSE not to understand it. They CHOOSE to preserve their false and evil belief system by blankly refusing to know the fact that the owner of capital only has the power to offer the working class access to opportunity they would not otherwise have had, while the landowner has the power to DEPRIVE them of access to opportunity they WOULD otherwise have had. The capital owner can inherently only improve the condition of the working class. The landowner can inherently only degrade it.
The goal is better conditions, more equality, etc.
Then Marxists and other socialists will have to start by finding a willingness to know the fact that it is ownership of land that enables abuse of the working class, not ownership of capital.
Davea8 wrote:That, and the absence of the profit motive associated with private ownership, which invariably leads to greed and exploitation and all the evils that go with it.
No, you are factually incorrect. Greed (unfortunately mistranslated as "love of money") is indeed the root of all manner of evil, but the profit motive does not imply greed or exploitation. Greed is defined as excessive, rapacious desire for more than one needs
or deserves. The profit motive means people can obtain more for themselves
either by
deserving more -- i.e., by making a greater contribution to production of goods and services -- or by
appropriating more by dint of privilege or unscrupulous practices. You need to find a willingness to know the fact that the enemies of the working class are privilege and dishonesty, not the profit motive.