The R-Word Michael Albert Revolution to many means chaos, violence, and death. Workers sell their ability to produce and as a reward suffer subordination, lies, chicanery, and manipulation. Ambulance-chasing is a profitable professional pastime.
Commodity fetishism is the only respected way of life.
To argue that capitalists will freely forsake economic violence is utopian. Capitalism will never give us fine schools, good health care, equitable incomes, solidarity between workers, people before profit, and an environment suitable for human habitation. Fairness, humane investment, and social self-management require collective public ownership, decentralized participatory planning, and jobs incorporating comparable access to information, responsibility, and skilled work. We have economic violence. We want economic liberty.