'Collectivist ideology' just means humans cooperating with each other and pooling their assets toward a common goal. I get a vote, along with the other shareholders, on who will represent my interests on the board of directors for a company that I own stock in. The vote doesn't always go my way, and sometimes a company will use my capital to pay for things that I might not think will necessarily benefit me. If I lose enough confidence in the company, my recourse is to sell my shares. That is 'collectivist ideology' and also happens to be how Capitalism works.
The shareholders of a Democratic Republic also get a vote in who will represent their interests. The vote doesn't always go their way, and people who didn't support universal healthcare still end up paying for it. If they lose enough confidence in the nation, their recourse is to expatriate. That is 'collectivist ideology' and doesn't lead to the 1% having control over everyone else, as demonstrated by its success in most of the industrialized world.
None of that has anything to do with Marxism, which shouldn't really be in your Civics 101 curriculum at all. Marxism and Capitalism belong in Economics 101.
A better example of Marxism is open source software, where the labour contribution of each developer is pushed to a commonly held source code repository like GitHub, and each developer receives back their quantum of labour in full, enhanced by the contributions of their fellow developers, with no surplus-labour being siphoned away by the CEO of AutoDesk to fuel up his yacht.
With the greatest respect, a long winded puff of wind!
Profit equals unpaid labour!
All businesses must make profit, I don't think anyone but an idiot would say differently! Or it the business simply wouldn't exist! Detrimental to employer and employee!
But then government steps in, it can either allow greed to exceed or create balance or equilibrium of interest, or legislate to the detriment of the employer.
In U.K. And USA that ideas can be thrown straight in the bucket and that doesn't include preference or ordinary shares and how they can be manipulated or sold short!
Special interests and groups have infiltrated the democratic values and corruptly and by guile undermining any semblence of balance of public and private, legal and illegal, right and wrong!
I know of one company who bought another, the owner thought he could get away with lowering the wages of the business he bought! He told the Rep, they get what my guys get paid! After a year, and twenty driver appeared at court, (after the Rep had been offered a brown envelope of money) the new owner if the company was legally forced to go into his back pocket and pay these drivers over a million pounds of back wages! That my friend, is greed! A loaf of bread costs everyone the same, but because we still have some employment laws still on statute these drivers got redress, since then, the laws have been changed and it's more difficult to any redress in law, and then extreme behaviour becomes the norm! There is nothing good about American or Westminster, the extremes we are at now, the deliberate policy to create hunger and starvation.... is the road millions are on,
In a dictatorship or Pluticracy, the rich win! Society becomes unstable people go hungry and extremists are created to curtail social unrest, or attempts to unify society by creating world war exactly where we are at the moment!
Good on you you have shares, but don't think for one moment unless your owning millions of dollars in shares, your a rich man, you deceive only yourself if you do!
