Short Public Policy Demands: On Labour Markets, Taxation, Macroeconomy, and Ownership
Posted 8th June 2012 at 13:46 by Die Neue Zeit
Previous blog: http://www.revleft.com/vb/blog.php?b=6667
Sometimes blogs can be more conducive to agitation than education. The previous blog was educative, and part of a broader programmatic framework. This one, posted elsewhere online as a blog comment or a letter, aims to be agitative.
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Some economically radical demands are more important than others, among them the proposals of left economists Hyman Minsky and Rudolf Meidner, and I feel these should be discussed (also as an out-of-the-box means of discrediting what remains of social democracy):
1. Universalisation of annual, non-deflationary adjustments for all non-executive and non-celebrity remunerations, pensions and insurance benefits to at least match rising costs of living.
2. Fuller socio-income democracy through direct proposals and rejections – at the national level and above – regarding the creation and adjustment of income multiple limits in all industries, for all major working class and other professions, and across all types of income.
3. The realization of zero unemployment structurally and cyclically by means of expanding public services a) to fully include employment of last resort for consumer services and even b) to fully socialize the labour market as the sole de jure employer of all workers in society, contracting out all labour services to the private sector on the basis of comprehensive worker protections.
4. The increase of real social savings and investment by first means of mandatory and significant redistributions of annual business profits, by private enterprises with more workers than a defined threshold, as non-tradable and superior voting shares to be held by geographically organised worker funds.
5. The implementation of economy-wide indicative planning based on extensive mathematical optimization.
6. Enabling the full replacement of the hiring of labour for small-business profit by cooperative production, and also society’s cooperative production of goods and services to be regulated by cooperatives under their common plans.
Sometimes blogs can be more conducive to agitation than education. The previous blog was educative, and part of a broader programmatic framework. This one, posted elsewhere online as a blog comment or a letter, aims to be agitative.
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Some economically radical demands are more important than others, among them the proposals of left economists Hyman Minsky and Rudolf Meidner, and I feel these should be discussed (also as an out-of-the-box means of discrediting what remains of social democracy):
1. Universalisation of annual, non-deflationary adjustments for all non-executive and non-celebrity remunerations, pensions and insurance benefits to at least match rising costs of living.
2. Fuller socio-income democracy through direct proposals and rejections – at the national level and above – regarding the creation and adjustment of income multiple limits in all industries, for all major working class and other professions, and across all types of income.
3. The realization of zero unemployment structurally and cyclically by means of expanding public services a) to fully include employment of last resort for consumer services and even b) to fully socialize the labour market as the sole de jure employer of all workers in society, contracting out all labour services to the private sector on the basis of comprehensive worker protections.
4. The increase of real social savings and investment by first means of mandatory and significant redistributions of annual business profits, by private enterprises with more workers than a defined threshold, as non-tradable and superior voting shares to be held by geographically organised worker funds.
5. The implementation of economy-wide indicative planning based on extensive mathematical optimization.
6. Enabling the full replacement of the hiring of labour for small-business profit by cooperative production, and also society’s cooperative production of goods and services to be regulated by cooperatives under their common plans.
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[QUOTE=The Boss;bt14589]Ah, Social Democracy.
And no, you are not 'agitating' by posting a blog entry.
Why don't you take your work to the working class if you think you're such a damned intellectual powerhouse?
Seriously, parading some third rate pieces around a few internet sites doesn't mean you're some sort of serious Marxist theorist. Just play stuff, this is.[/QUOTE]
This was posted nearly 2 months ago. Why didn't you respond to it back then? Seems to me like you're just looking for something to flame.
Anyway, I'll try responding to the one line of your post that wasn't flaming:
It's not social democracy at all. It clearly says "short public policy demands" in the title. A social democrat would have these as long term policy demands. I'm surprised you don't know this by now.Posted 3rd August 2012 at 00:35 by Drosophila 
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There's nothing about this entry that implies a belief that socialism can be achieved within the legal framework of capitalism. Stammer and Tickle is just continuing his childish vendetta against DNZ.
Posted 3rd August 2012 at 01:35 by Grenzer
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It's not childish if nobody is responding to it. It's what i'd call a legitimate ad hominem attack - i'm attacking the person because the reformist nature of their posts is both numerous, repeated and blatant.
DNZ only ever posts short term public policy demands. He spends such a great deal of time on his post-Keynesianism, on his advent of a massive,bureaucratic ECB that tbh, it just seems as if he's hiding his reformism behind this.Posted 3rd August 2012 at 22:25 by The Boss
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Reforms /= reformism. Also, an ECB monopoly on all EU-wide financial services would benefit Europe's workers.Posted 6th August 2012 at 07:21 by Die Neue Zeit
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No it wouldn't.
Reforms =/= reformism, correct. But you only ever advocate reforms and more bureaucracy, which is reformism.
Sorry this took so long to reply, been busy.Posted 18th August 2012 at 10:23 by The Boss
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Obviously you have not been reading any of my stuff on actual transitional measures that wouldn't qualify as radical reform. Bureaucracy is a process, so I have posted much more about that rather unrelated subject.
Posted 19th August 2012 at 20:00 by Die Neue Zeit
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