It is also rare to see the connection made so directly between unemployment and welfare. To make welfare recipients go to work. Nevertheless, Communists would want to add a few things to Baker's analysis. When you dig around the roots of the capitalist system, you will also find exploitation and racism. Exploitation serves to enrich the few off the labor and hardship of the many.
Racism is the ideology developed to justify the slavery of people of African descent in our country.
Now it is used to justify the fact that the victims of racism are forced into lower-paying jobs and suffer the highest rates of unemployment. Then, when a higher proportion of people of color have to resort to welfare, racism is trotted out to try and convince white workers that welfare is someone else's problem. Any idea that there is no way out of this situation is hogwash. It just requires a change in priorities and massive redistribution of wealth and power. In a society like ours, with such tremendous wealth, there is plenty to go around.