When I first started working at Parkdale Community Health Center, I talked to a fellow worker in their early 50s about the problems facing society and we agreed on certain causes of those problems but a big disagreement was the solution to these problems! I put forward a systemic solution pointing to the idea of […]

When I first started working at Parkdale Community Health Center, I talked to a fellow worker in their early 50s about the problems facing society and we agreed on certain causes of those problems but a big disagreement was the solution to these problems! I put forward a systemic solution pointing to the idea of workers ownership, control and management of the workplaces to which he strongly disagreed and exclaimed that’s socialism and that never works! Over the last two years, the discussion continued, and I noticed him slowly agreeing with the conclusions of the Marxists. Last Friday I was talking to him and he sounded like a Marxist: he blamed the billionaires for the problems of everyday workers and by the end of the discussion he told me that he hopes things will change so workers can have a better living. I responded by saying there’s been plenty of good intentioned people who hoped for the same thing and the situation we’re now living in is the result of that! I ended by saying what workers need to do is fight for our interests because the billionaires will not give it to us and he exclaimed enthusiastically “that’s right, we have to fight”!