Its not vary ambitious is it? Why is there a government, police, army and money? Why is the roll of the public limited to occasionally voting and on rare occasions revolting?
This is just an attempt to make the current system nice, there is no apparent understanding of how the world works at present and why it is the way it is.
If the people can overthrow the government then why should they put a new one in its place?
What you are proposing has been done before, state socialism with its nationalised industries and centralised control dominated life for many milllions of people last century, and all it resulted in was stifling bureaucracy, dictatorial control, economic stagnation and environmental catastrophe.
This is broadly speaking an anarchist site. See http://www.libcom.org/tags/anarchism
Anarchism in basic terms is a society without a state and also without wages and money and therefore without capitalism. Its the idea that industries shouldn;t be controlled by corporate executive boards, bosses or by the state but instead they should be democratically run by the workers themselves.
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If the people can overthrow the government then why should they put a new one in its place?
This is the key point here. Forget about all of the rest of your in-no-way-anti-capitalist reforms, Alex. All you need to keep of your model is the final fragment of your final point, i.e.::
the people are within their rights to revolt with force.
-- separated from the proviso that such rights only hold when the PM ignores this or that prescription of your model.
And when they do so, they can get on with the task of finally abolishing capitalism and the state for good.
But, hey, if you want to try to organize a new political party based on this model, then, by all means, go for it. Don't think you'll find many supporters here, though.
13. No journalists shall make unsupported claims. If they do, they shall risk losing their jobs. A regulatory body for this shall be set up.
You mean a press council or the NUJ. All of this exists, in fact a lot of your thesis sewing illusions in democracy already exist in a lot of countries. Your idesa are slightly to the right of the Irish Green Party who are currently sharing power here. Anyways, my point is most journalists don't make unsupported claims for the fun of it. Blame the owners.
High School students struck and marched across Germany yesterday in protest against classroom overcrowding, lack of teachers, and the pressure of examinations.
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.
A model for social change
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(Note: I do not predict the following model to be popular with anyone other than the working class – i.e. those that have to work for a living and worry about paying the bills – but since the working class makes up the majority, and more importantly, make up a greater majority than the Armed Forces and Police Force put together, they should be OK in a state of mass revolt.)
(2nd note: The middle class – i.e. those that have to work for a living but don’t have to worry about paying the bills – need not suffer. Since all wages and inflation would be in the hands of the people-owned Government anyway, wages for middle-class jobs – doctors, dentists, surgeons, lawyers, etc. – would remain the same. This may seem like a poor compromise for the working class, but if it will give us an even greater majority, so be it. It must also be noted that the above jobs are to be very highly regarded. They take years of training, concentration and hard work.)
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1. Concerning any legal ruling or decision of Government policy, including the declaration of war in defence, if more than 33% of the country’s people complain to their respective councils against the decision taken, a nationwide vote must be taken to either maintain or reverse the decision. All relevant information concerning the original legal ruling or decision of Government policy must be made public to the people at the time of the vote.
2. The decision to start a war in attack rather than defence is to be voted upon by the people and must be backed by a 51% majority.
3. The existing Government system of Prime-minister and under-ministers is to be maintained.
4. Leaders of political parties are to be voted for by the people every two years.
5. Prime-ministers, and not parties, are to be voted for at general elections.
6. Any individual entering into the Armed Forces or the Police Force should take their pledge of allegiance to the people, and not to the head of Government.
7. Public sector work – i.e. work concerning the care of other people – shall require years of training and certification of such, just as doctoring, surgery, dentistry, nursing and law do.
8. Economic inflation in all areas of business shall be regulated by economists employed by the Government, and all minimum wages shall be determined by the economists in line with inflation. The people’s welfare shall be paramount.
9. All businesses shall be nationalized.
10. All businesses shall provide a pension plan.
11. All Government activity shall be recorded, and all records shall be available for view by the public.
12. As a provisional plan to improve the environment by reducing carbon emissions:
a. A target for cutting emissions shall be agreed upon by a representative group of climatologists. Let us call this figure the ‘target figure’.
b. Prices for travel via the public transportation system shall be reduced to the point that more people are encouraged to use it.
c. The taxation of fuel shall be raised to 50%. People whose jobs require extensive travel, such as truckers, shall have their fees paid for by the Government.
d. The extra money gained from the taxation increase and from the extra people using public transport anyway shall go into improving the public transport system further, hopefully encouraging even more people to use it.
e. When the ‘target figure’ for emissions cuts has been reached, the taxation on fuel shall be reduced again.
13. No journalists shall make unsupported claims. If they do, they shall risk losing their jobs. A regulatory body for this shall be set up.
14. The welfare of the people shall be paramount, taking into account concerns regarding the environment.
15. All public votes shall be initiated by the Prime-minister.
16. Any minister who ignores any of the above prescriptions shall be liable to expulsion from office by the people’s vote, requiring a 51% majority.
17. If the Prime-minister ignores any of the above prescriptions, the people are within their rights to revolt with force.