Social Greenman
26th February 2006, 18:12
From the SLP website:
Under socialism, all power to make social decisions will be vested in the people.
Our industries, their ownership, and how they are run are far more important to our lives and welfare than any other aspect of our existence. Socialist society and government will be based on these truths. Accordingly: The industries (the means of producing all goods and services) will be owned collectively by all the people. The industries will be administered democratically from bottom to top by representatives elected directly by the workers in each industry and subject to their control. All representatives will be subject to recall at any time by those who elected them.
This industrial administration will, in fact, be the new government.
Production will be carried out to satisfy the people's wants. The useful producers will receive in goods and services the social equivalent of their work. Those unable to work will share in that abundance.
There is nothing in this picture which in any way resembles the workings of class-divided capitalism and its political state.
The government of socialist America will have the job of coordinating and administering our industrial activities. It will, accordingly, have an INDUSTRIAL base. And it will be so constituted that all AUTHORITY will come directly from THE WORKERS, integrally organized in Socialist Industrial Unions.
In each plant (and in each school, hospital, etc.), the rank and file will collectively determine workplace policies and will elect a committee to plan the overall plant operations. In each subdivision of a plant, the workers will participate in determining how best to implement the plans of the committee and assure the efficient running of their economic unit.
Besides electing their immediate supervisors, the workers will also elect representatives to a local and a national council of their respective industry--and to a central congress representing all the industries and services.
This all-industry congress will ascertain what goods and services are wanted and will determine the resources needed to supply them. It will draw up the necessary production, expansion and improvement plans and allocate these to the various industries. The congress will also arrange a distribution of the output with the workers receiving the full social equivalent of the labor they contributed.
http://www.slp.org/siu_ism.htm
The last sentence is the administration of TLVs.
All persons elected to posts in this economic administration, at whatever level, will be subject to rank-and-file control, and to removal whenever a majority of those who elected them find it desirable to replace them.
THIS is the only democracy possible in highly industrialized America: democracy founded on social ownership of the instruments of production and distribution and on economic freedom. It is the only form of society that can solve the problems capitalism has imposed upon us. It is the only social structure that can release the abundance for all now locked up in the capitalist economy.
For you as an individual, socialist industrial democracy will mean a full, happy and useful life. It will mean the opportunity to develop all your talents. It will mean direct participation in the decisions of a society of free human beings.
In socialist society, class divisions and exploitation will have been eliminated. Production will be carried out for use by all rather than to serve the profit interests of a small minority. There would be no "crises of overproduction," no unemployment due to the accumulation by a ruling class of commodities that workers could not afford to buy.
The only limit on production would be social needs and wants. The allocation of resources will be democratically planned by a society in full control of its productive forces.
In socialist society, for the first time, the people will consciously direct their economic activity and democratically provide for their own well-being and security. Not only useful labor, but the fruits of that labor as well, will be available to all.
The principles of workers' democracy--i.e., the right and power of the majority to recall all elected representatives, the abolition of bureaucratic privileges, etc.--would ensure that control of the socialist industrial government remained in the hands of the rank and file.
Under socialism, all power to make social decisions will be vested in the people.
Our industries, their ownership, and how they are run are far more important to our lives and welfare than any other aspect of our existence. Socialist society and government will be based on these truths. Accordingly: The industries (the means of producing all goods and services) will be owned collectively by all the people. The industries will be administered democratically from bottom to top by representatives elected directly by the workers in each industry and subject to their control. All representatives will be subject to recall at any time by those who elected them.
This industrial administration will, in fact, be the new government.
Production will be carried out to satisfy the people's wants. The useful producers will receive in goods and services the social equivalent of their work. Those unable to work will share in that abundance.
There is nothing in this picture which in any way resembles the workings of class-divided capitalism and its political state.
The government of socialist America will have the job of coordinating and administering our industrial activities. It will, accordingly, have an INDUSTRIAL base. And it will be so constituted that all AUTHORITY will come directly from THE WORKERS, integrally organized in Socialist Industrial Unions.
In each plant (and in each school, hospital, etc.), the rank and file will collectively determine workplace policies and will elect a committee to plan the overall plant operations. In each subdivision of a plant, the workers will participate in determining how best to implement the plans of the committee and assure the efficient running of their economic unit.
Besides electing their immediate supervisors, the workers will also elect representatives to a local and a national council of their respective industry--and to a central congress representing all the industries and services.
This all-industry congress will ascertain what goods and services are wanted and will determine the resources needed to supply them. It will draw up the necessary production, expansion and improvement plans and allocate these to the various industries. The congress will also arrange a distribution of the output with the workers receiving the full social equivalent of the labor they contributed.
http://www.slp.org/siu_ism.htm
The last sentence is the administration of TLVs.
All persons elected to posts in this economic administration, at whatever level, will be subject to rank-and-file control, and to removal whenever a majority of those who elected them find it desirable to replace them.
THIS is the only democracy possible in highly industrialized America: democracy founded on social ownership of the instruments of production and distribution and on economic freedom. It is the only form of society that can solve the problems capitalism has imposed upon us. It is the only social structure that can release the abundance for all now locked up in the capitalist economy.
For you as an individual, socialist industrial democracy will mean a full, happy and useful life. It will mean the opportunity to develop all your talents. It will mean direct participation in the decisions of a society of free human beings.
In socialist society, class divisions and exploitation will have been eliminated. Production will be carried out for use by all rather than to serve the profit interests of a small minority. There would be no "crises of overproduction," no unemployment due to the accumulation by a ruling class of commodities that workers could not afford to buy.
The only limit on production would be social needs and wants. The allocation of resources will be democratically planned by a society in full control of its productive forces.
In socialist society, for the first time, the people will consciously direct their economic activity and democratically provide for their own well-being and security. Not only useful labor, but the fruits of that labor as well, will be available to all.
The principles of workers' democracy--i.e., the right and power of the majority to recall all elected representatives, the abolition of bureaucratic privileges, etc.--would ensure that control of the socialist industrial government remained in the hands of the rank and file.