The Means of Production Explained

As per a request by a friend I give you "the Means of Production".

So what are the "means of production"?
They are exactly what you assume, the industries and utilities needed for a company to produce the products it does.
Do you remember what I said about the definitions for communism? Of course you do!

The bourgeois/the owners, evident by name, own companies, businesses and industries in general- and it is these that are the means of production. They produce what you buy in the supermarkets and wherever else it is you shop, they also sell abroad and it is through all this that the companies, employees and government earn money.

Now then, as is commonly seen in companies the vast majority of the employees earn less than the people/person in charge. Those in charge quite often live very comfortable lifestyles due to the money they earn, those who work for them- at least the majority of those who work for them- do not have such lavish lifestyles, they are the workers and as such earn enough to class them as lower middle class; not poor but not well off either.

Communism heavily hates this system, why? Because for a company to work profitably it must have the majority of its workers, working in static (unmovable) positions. It is against a capitalist companies interests to not work for profit, and profit cannot be gained if all the workers in its employ keep getting promoted and moving up the wage ladder. In order to prevent that workers are kept in what is known as "dead end jobs".  They stay in one place and cannot move forward of that position, and so cannot better look after their families or such other needs while the owners continue to increase their salaries for the companies success is their success too.
Workers are given a "competitive wage" meaning a wage just good enough to out do potential competitors but low enough to keep earning plenty of money.
Communism hates this capitalist ideal because it benefits very few people. Communism is all about trying to help everyone or at least as many people as it can, with the majority of people being workers it often puts its emphasis on that, but to do so solely represents a false belief as communism supports everyone, equally this even includes the owners (much to some's protest).

Communism wants to change this system and feels it can do so through a process known as nationalisation. Now then this means putting all industry and the "means of production" under governmental control. Government ministries run the companies and from that take the profits of the companies and put them back into the nation, instead of the owner's pockets. The government can put money back into the nation in many many ways, most evidently in local projects and pay raises for workers.
The Soavist ideology of which this whole blog is about promotes nationalisation in almost everything- we intend to leave charities and social businesses alone. Soavism considers charities can be best handled by themselves and the same with social businesses as both know the local area they're supporting and so know what ways they can help, such a localised understanding cannot be the same by a national government as so we leave them alone knowing they're helping their communities.

Now of course the government I've just described to you is not the present one, and that is because we live in a capitalist system, to take aspects of communism to look at it through the current system is to not give communism a chance as it is a completely different system and so needs to be looked at through different eyes.

Communism is all about the idea of "Marxist Freedom"- building yourself up with the help and co-operation of others. In building yourself you help build others up too as it is all through co-operation. In lifting yourself you lift, equally, all those that help you as you too help them. It is through Marxist Freedom many communist policies are based around, such as nationalisation- the public vote in a government who will nationalise, the government nationalises and so the profits gained benefit the public. You're helping others help yourself- Marxist Freedom.

In my next blog I'll talk about freedom in general, the capitalist viewpoint up against the communist viewpoint. If you have any requests please feel free to comment with them, I'll be happy to help if I can.

Yours
~Soav