jasontkennedy
5th July 2005, 05:11
First let me say, broadly speaking, I am a Marxist. I support either a worker's revolution, or fabian indoctrination of Marxist ideas as a primary form of economy. Understand that before I move on.
In the 2000 election Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys was seriously considering candiacy for the Green Party Presidential candidate, as he was nominated. IN a lot of his green party speeches he had some great ideas to improve the standard of living for the working classes under a capitalist government. I thought I would share a few of them, just to see what you all think of this sort of gradual revolution from within the system.
He advocated the removal of a minimum wadge and have it replaced with a legitimate living wadge. He advocated a "maximum wadge" for the idle rich, and that any surplus that they generated would go back to employees or some sort of national welfare system (that might mean improved mass transit, government funded RD for eco / worker friendly autos, free college for anyone, etc)He was also behind allowing homeless to squat in blighted buildings. He strongly advocated buying local whenever possible. Those were just a few ideas. It is not my favorite ideology, but it seems like it could gain favor in the mainstream conscious more easily than other ideas might right now. Oh, and he is strongly opposed to NAFTA and WTO in a capitalist economy (and as long as america is capitalist, I am with him)
Again, this is here because it is not socialist or anarchist in nature, but to me sounds like a huge improvement over what we have now.
In the 2000 election Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys was seriously considering candiacy for the Green Party Presidential candidate, as he was nominated. IN a lot of his green party speeches he had some great ideas to improve the standard of living for the working classes under a capitalist government. I thought I would share a few of them, just to see what you all think of this sort of gradual revolution from within the system.
He advocated the removal of a minimum wadge and have it replaced with a legitimate living wadge. He advocated a "maximum wadge" for the idle rich, and that any surplus that they generated would go back to employees or some sort of national welfare system (that might mean improved mass transit, government funded RD for eco / worker friendly autos, free college for anyone, etc)He was also behind allowing homeless to squat in blighted buildings. He strongly advocated buying local whenever possible. Those were just a few ideas. It is not my favorite ideology, but it seems like it could gain favor in the mainstream conscious more easily than other ideas might right now. Oh, and he is strongly opposed to NAFTA and WTO in a capitalist economy (and as long as america is capitalist, I am with him)
Again, this is here because it is not socialist or anarchist in nature, but to me sounds like a huge improvement over what we have now.