The Conquest of Bread- Chapter 1.3 audio and study questions

Audio for Chapter 1, Section 3

How does anyone own anything if they don’t own it forever?

If your family invented a product how could someone make and sell an improved version, isn’t it your family’s forever since it was at a point?

On the other side of that, if the blood of our families is inside the machines aren’t they more ours?

How do the capitalists justify retaining ownership over our own flesh?

Are you an heir to nothing?

How much do you sell your labor for each day, how does that compare to your ancestors?

Are you in the same physical location as them under the rule of the same family of capitalists?
Have you had time to ever even figure that out?

Since the capitalists are concerned with profit not well being we workers are at their whims. Can you think of examples of that local to you?

If the factories left what did they make when open?

 Did the product that labor was sold to build help sustain the area once the doors of the factory were shut?

Where do the products in our houses come from and who are the laborers that made them?

Aren’t the laborers the collateral damage in a fight between capitalists over who can have the most excess wealth?

What does the concept of education as a right do to the children of laborers?

Capitalists won’t allow the price our labor is sold for to be high enough to allow us energy for education so how could we take that time?

Is workplace education the beginnings of workplace organizing and is that an answer to capitalism?
The police, courts, jails and whole legal system are another way for capitalists to control us? Why would non wealthy people sell out laborers for capitalists?

Does the ruling class send out lies as truth in places like schools and workplaces in order to keep the workers from organizing or communicating across social groups?

Are we all living within the bubble of a lie that’s bound to burst?

Will we go extinct if we cannot learn to work together not just as humans but as a whole with the earth?

What would need to change for you to feel like you had the right to well being?