(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #227 - Campaign 2013 AL: An ideological battle to fight (fr)

If there is a crisis, whether of austerity, it is because the workers are too expensive, 
say the capitalists against the false rhetoric, we can not do without a struggle against 
the cultural hegemony of the latter. ---- " The problems we face are known. We have a 
problem of labor costs . " This sentence Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault, epitomizes the 
bottom of the ideological discourse of capitalist relayed by the media. The "problem" in 
question is but a pretext for anti-social policies. In reality, the "solutions" - 
increased working hours, salary reductions, plant closures, destruction of social gains - 
apply only to unspeakable purposes: to maintain the rate of capitalist profit blunted by 
the economic crisis and allowing a caste of wealthy perpetuate his life being bombastic.

Labor costs or the cost of capital?

The figures speak for themselves: the total wealth created by workers in France, 60% 
reward work (wages, pensions, contributions) and 40% capital (profits reinvested or not, 
dividends , speculation). The profit share in the wealth produced, however, was "only" 30% 
thirty years ago. The cost of labor has therefore been declining relative to the cost of 
capital. Simply, capitalists always want more. Which is expensive, so it is the share of 
profit made by the capitalists of the wealth produced by the same work. Should get the 
numbers? Forty billion paid to shareholders of CAC 40 companies, or 4.2 million euros 
annual average income per head of these companies ... These figures reflect alone lies 
upon which the discourse on " cost "of labor. Contrary to the dominant thinking qu'ass?ne 
editorials or newscast length, there is no way "rational" to the crisis, which would mean 
lower labor costs. Everything is a matter of perspective, that of a social class. And the 
proletariat, which is rational, is to abolish capitalist exploitation.

Down the cultural domination of the powerful

The capitalists do not produce wealth, but recover on the back of those they exploit, we, 
the employee-es. Here's what you make it clear to all operated es. For if capitalist 
exploitation works is partly due to its cultural domination of the capitalists who brings 
operated es to adopt the worldview of the dominant, and ignore the reality of their own 
operations. Thus, if the fight must be waged on the social and political field by strikes, 
mobilization, it must also carry on the ideological field. Like what was done against the 
European Treaty of 2005, it is now urgent for anticapitalist conduct substantive work 
consisting expose the lies dumped daily in the bourgeois media and highlight the heart the 
problem of capitalist exploitation.

The Campaign Committee in 2013