reforming capitalism

[Gordon Fitch]

> ">I'm not arguing for a better corporate run capitalism, I'm not for
> >reforming it because it cannot reform."
> 
> "Yeah, I mean, how can you improve greed? envy?"

Greg Schofield:
> Perhaps the real political question is how could you help not improving it?
> 
> Was it not Marx who specified the role of communists in 
> realising the IMMEDIATE interests of the working class as 
> one of the defining differences between them and the the sects?

What are the _immediate_ interests of the (which?) working
class as of December 21, 2001?  And what do we mean by
"interests", anyway -- what we think their interests are or
what they think their interests are?