The Problem With Jill Stein

She aims for reforms that only seem, but do not actually, make things better for the have-nots, and she does not aim to stop the haves from treating the have-nots like dirt.

The problem with Jill Stein:

I just received an email from Jill Stein (a fund-raising letter with her logo shown above at the top) about what she will do about the problem of homelessness (or what she calls the problem of unhoused people.) Here’s the paragraph in which she says what she’ll do:

Jill Stein believes that housing is a human right. Under Jill’s administration she’ll take on the crisis of housing with a Homes Guarantee, a plan to build 15 million green, union built public housing units over the next 10 years, and universal rent control to rein in the surging rental costs that are pricing working people out of the housing market and into the streets. Jill is fighting for a livable minimum wage of at least $25 an hour that will assure American workers are paid fairly for their labor and can afford stable housing.

As you can see, Jill Stein does not aim to abolish class inequality. This is evident from the fact that she wants to keep the wage system of labor (just with a reform to the minimum wage amount.) The wage system of labor is the essence of capitalist class inequality. It means that most people—the have-nots, i.e., employees, a.k.a. workers—work for the few haves—i.e., employers—in a kind of master-slave relation: the employees have to do what the employers order them to do or else be fired, and the product of the employees’ labor is the property of the employer. This is, of course, totally anti-democratic and the opposite of equality. Read here how egalitarians organized economic production in Spain. How come Jill Stein doesn’t advocate this instead of wage slavery? If Jill Stein did not want to keep the wage system of labor she would have said so. But she didn’t say so.

Reforming the capitalist system with Jill-Stein-reforms doesn’t make things better even though the reforms often seem like they would do that.

Take Jill Stein’s idea to raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour, for example. Do you know what happens when the minimum wage is raised in a capitalist society? Employers hire fewer people, so unemployment increases; and employers raise the price of their product. We need a non-capitalist, egalitarian kind of economy, something like this.

Jill Stein wants to build a lot of public housing units. But do you know what it’s like to live in the public housing that has been built in the past? It’s not good. It’s not good because the poeple who live in it don’t have the real power in our capitalist society; they are the have-nots whom the haves treat like dirt. Here is an extract from a governing.com report of public housing:

Jill Stein wants to have universal rent control. But do you know what rent control ends up doing in our capitalist society? Typically rent control means the landlord cannot raise the rent until there is a new tenant. This motivates the landlord to let the building get dilapidated in order to make the current tenant leave so the landlord can then raise the rent. Rent control leads to bad living conditions for the have-nots. Read here about the egalitarian—not capitalist!—way to have good housing for all.

Jill Stein wants to preserve the capitalist system by making vapid promises that if she becomes president she’ll make capitalism great. It’s a lie. There are other problems with Jill Stein too, of course. For example she goes along with the divisive trans stuff that the ruling class is promoting for divide-and-rule of the have-nots. And she refuses to say and explain that Israeli violence against Palestinians is for the purpose of enabling the Israeli billionaire ruling class to control, severely economically oppress and get rich off of the Israeli Jewish working class, and by this silence helps the ruling class keep the movement against this Israeli racist violence too small to force the U.S. government to stop supporting Israel.

Read here how YOU can help build the egalitarian revolutionary movement to remove the rich from power, have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor and with nobody treated like dirt.