Autism, exploitation and Capitalism

[FireIceTalon]

Hell, of course people with Autism get exploited by others - so do people without Autism.

But this misses the point entirely. Yes, all workers are exploited under capitalism, but people with disabilities are so far more, because they are viewed as a threat to profit in such a way that those w/o disabilities aren't. If you have an neurotypical person and a autistic person, with the same exact qualifications in an interview, who do you think is more likely to be hired? We both know the answer to this question. Also, people with autism or other disabilities are more likely to be fired or laid off than those who are neurotypical or abled, for the same reasons. Additionally, they are usually paid less to do the same jobs, and the unemployment rate for people on the spectrum is nearly 80% worldwide - that is higher even than adults who have a intellectual disability, since that is seen as a lesser evil for the capitalists than having a social or neurological disability like autism/aspergers.

Humans are generally selfish and we'll exploit anything to get ourselves ahead.

Blanket statement. This is the essence of bourgeois idealism regarding human interactions - oversimplified and, generally, quite vulgar while offering little insight to social conditions. The ruling class has been perpetuating this pseudo-scientific, biologically determistic crud into the consciousness of the masses since the dawn of capitalism, because they know an organized, socialist working class is a huge threat to their privilege, power and the very system of private property that creates the given class relations in the first place. Selfishness, exploitation, and greed aren't biological traits, they're entirely social and therefore must be learned. The same is true of racism, sexism and all discriminatory thought in general - people aren't born that way, they learn to be this way. If you put people in a class based society where competition and hierarchy comprise the social structure rather than cooperation and equality, their thoughts, behavior and actions are naturally going to reflect such. The same is true if its the reverse. This also applies to the institutions within the society, which will be reflective of the given social order and how it is organized. Base & Superstructure. There is no such thing as 'inherent selfishness'.

If we weren't, we have had FITs imaginary utopia millennia ago.

There is nothing imaginary or utopian about it, comrade. If the means of production being owned by a small elite class of individuals is possible, as under the failing present social order, then the diametrically opposite condition of them being owned by all citizens of the world is also a possibility. There is nothing utopian about people deciding what to produce, how to produce it, how much of it to produce, and so on. Nor is it imaginary, since such similarly structured societies existed previously; as recently as around 12,000 years ago (blink of an eye in our species time here), before the Agricultural Revolution produced a surplus of goods and thus created the conditions that allowed class society to develop. Of course, given our technological development and supply of resources compared to that time, such a social organization of people would be far superior now to the one then, the only thing them having in common is common ownership to the means of production. The quote in my signature sums it up well.

It is true that there are utopian theories of socialism, namely Owenism, but they have nothing in common with the scientific socialism put forth by the work of Marx and Engels; the framework that I operate within.