People demonstrate the potential for cooperation

The Amerikan people gave over $150 million to 
relief and recovery efforts in New York and 
Washington DC as a part of the Friday night 
(September 21) telethon "America: A Tribute to 
Heroes," which was shown on about three dozen TV 
stations. The show also simulcasted on 8,000 
radio stations and on the web. This is just a 
fraction of all the money that has been donated to 
relief and recovery efforts. The altruistic 
outpouring of support from people across the 
country is a stark and welcome contrast to the 
usually extolled capitalist value of greed upon 
which this country was founded. 

Communists disagree with the biological 
determinist argument that at base people are 
selfish. If this were true it would not be 
possible to build a society based on mutual 
benefit for all because individuals would always 
be competing for more than their share. And 
because communism is ultimately in the interests 
of everyone, those arguing that people can not 
look beyond short term persynal gains are also 
saying that people can not think long term.

People fantasizing about humyns as purely isolated individuals
(living on land after they killed the indigenous people they stole
it from and forgot about) have ignored the millions of years of humyn history
in which survival meant cooperating to overcome
predators in the wild, many of which have more powerful
jaws, bigger teeth, greater speed, more limb
strength and sometimes larger tribes or packs than humyn
nuclear families that we see in a typical suburban home or
rural ranch. Anyone justifying his or her narrow
apolitical, wealth-pursuing outlook with talk
about "human nature" is obviously not
thinking about tribal life in most of history.

The U.$. outpouring of support for relief and recovery 
efforts in the united states demonstrates the willingness 
of people to work for a common good, even when it 
has no direct material benefit to themselves. 
Amerikans have a hard time relating to the 
voluntary work put in by the people in the Soviet 
Union under Lenin and Stalin and in China under 
Mao. Many, many people did this work to build up their 
country without expectation of any direct reward, 
and sometimes at great hardship to themselves. But 
this attack on U.$. soil has given Amerikans a 
reason for altruism that hits home, demonstrating 
that even at least some members of parasitic classes
can be altruistic and work for the common good.

MIM is not in favor of "democracy" of the bourgeois
sort we have now. We would rather have "altruocracy,"
where people in the party in government have to have some
willingness to sacrifice themselves as those emergency
fire and paramedic personnel who died on the scene of
the World Trade Center. When the life needs of humyn society
have been met in the advanced communist future, humyns
will no longer need "democracy" or "altruocracy," because
they will cooperate economically and politically.

The social and cultural support for recent Amerikan
selflessness helped build on an already willing 
Amerikan audience that felt the deaths in the 
World Trade Center as deaths of friends, family 
members, or at least people they could have known. 
MIM hopes that the people will remember their 
sentiments of support for a good cause when they 
are asked to give money to help end suffering 
outside of u.s. borders. When the communists get
to power, we will see to it that the whole oppressed
world receives first priority. Such a plan will do
more to bring about peace and justice than countless
acts of war and repression, which can only backfire.

Notes: 
http://entertainment.msn.com/news/eonline/092401_t
elethon.asp