Chapter 82 <Workers should be at the mercy of capitalists>

Apologists for capitalism, in demonstrating the fallacy that capitalists are justified in exploiting workers, say: The relationship between capitalists and workers is like the relationship between human brain and hands.Man is an organism, the brain is thinking, the hands are working, and the hands are controlled by the brain.If the hands do not listen to the command of the brain, human beings cannot survive.Society is also an organism, where capitalists are equivalent to brains and workers are equivalent to hands.If the workers do not obey the capitalists, society will perish.Since the hands are at the mercy of the brain, the worker is at the mercy of the capitalist.

To draw an analogy between two relations of fundamentally different nature is a sophistry played by the apologists of capitalism.It is well known that the relationship between the human brain and human hands is a natural physiological relationship between various parts of the human body, while the relationship between capitalists and workers is a class relationship, a relationship between hiring and being hired, exploiting and being exploited.It is true that human hands cannot work without the control of the human brain, but workers can completely work and live independently from the rule of capitalists.