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Die Linke doesn't get it re. income taxation
http://www.thelocal.de/money/2013020...l#.URMn9duF9PE
This knee-jerk move by Die Linke, possibly an acknowledgement that federal coalitionist overtures haven't worked, doesn't take into consideration that there are so many types of income taxed under income tax laws and there's no room for regular popular change of upper tax rates.
"A new centrist project does not have to repeat these mistakes. Nobody in this topic is advocating a carbon copy of the Second International (which again was only partly centrist)." (Tjis, class-struggle anarchist)
"A centrist strategy is based on patience, and building a movement or party or party-movement through deploying various instruments, which I think should include: workplace organising, housing struggles [...] and social services [...] and a range of other activities such as sports and culture. These are recruitment and retention tools that allow for a platform for political education." (Tim Cornelis, left-communist)
@DNZ -- please explain. A strategic or tactical error in politics? Risk of capital flight?
Comrade, recall my blogs on "Socio-Income Democracy":
http://www.revleft.com/vb/socio-inco...929/index.html
http://www.revleft.com/vb/socio-inco...907/index.html
Simply put, there's not enough popular empowerment for something called a "democracy tax."
"A new centrist project does not have to repeat these mistakes. Nobody in this topic is advocating a carbon copy of the Second International (which again was only partly centrist)." (Tjis, class-struggle anarchist)
"A centrist strategy is based on patience, and building a movement or party or party-movement through deploying various instruments, which I think should include: workplace organising, housing struggles [...] and social services [...] and a range of other activities such as sports and culture. These are recruitment and retention tools that allow for a platform for political education." (Tim Cornelis, left-communist)
OK -- makes sense, but...
I see a few levels to this.
One is presenting an ideological challenge to gross economic inequality. From what I can gather that seems to be what Die Linke is doing. Maybe I'm wrong. The rottenness of people being given that kind of money, while others struggle to subsist is pretty plain.
The second point I'd want to make is that the Revolutionary We need to embrace both the enforcement of taxes and push for substantive reforms in taxation. It's a huge blindness on our part.
And third, we need to negotiate what changes taxes are pushed for and with what qualifications. A very serious error of Jack Layton's was to make a push on inheritance taxes for inheritances at a million dollars or more. While in principle I supported it, on tactical and strategic lines I thought it was a dumb ass move. Particularly in urban centres, working people work their whole lives for a home and property that they'd hope would be worth a million dollars for their children, grandchildren and other dependents.
Anyways, enough ranting for the night...
Ready for when you rant next time, but that fits in with my criticism above. It's how one presents the "ideological challenge" how one "embraces the enforcement of taxes," and how one "negotiates what changes taxes are pushed for and with what qualifications."
"A new centrist project does not have to repeat these mistakes. Nobody in this topic is advocating a carbon copy of the Second International (which again was only partly centrist)." (Tjis, class-struggle anarchist)
"A centrist strategy is based on patience, and building a movement or party or party-movement through deploying various instruments, which I think should include: workplace organising, housing struggles [...] and social services [...] and a range of other activities such as sports and culture. These are recruitment and retention tools that allow for a platform for political education." (Tim Cornelis, left-communist)
