Al-USA

Two Lessons from the Last Century

What permanent elite exists in the USA that is far left socialist? Both Republicans and Democrats are the right wings of the one party, the Capitalist party. You don't think so? How about the recent public debate on bailing out the General Motors? Do you want to know how a REAL socialist would have handled that?

Here goes:
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Despite the bleak set of options presented by GM, Chrysler and the Democrats, of either: A) bailouts and job cuts or B) total bankruptcy, there is actually a third option: nationalization of the auto industry under democratic workers’ control.

The auto industry has become the front line of the bosses’ efforts to make the working class pay for the crisis. If the UAW were to take an independent stand and negotiate independently with the federal government, fighting tooth and nail to defend each and every job, defend every penny for wages and benefits and fight to keep all the plants open, auto workers would readily gain the support of workers in the steel, airline and other industries, who are also under attack.

Nationalization under workers’ control would allow for the creation of thousands of quality new jobs, for the expansion of the country’s public transportation infrastructure and lay the foundations for an economy based on society’s needs, not corporate profits. If the UAW, along with the whole of the labor movement, mobilized the membership to reject cuts, concessions, and to demand for nationalization of the industry under workers’ democratic control, they could mobilize the support of the working class as a whole.
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That my fellow capitalist is the answer to the problems of the auto makers, a real SOCIALIST solution. Anything else is, like I said, merely the response of two right wings, Republicans and Democrats, of the one party, the Capitalist party. Hava a good day.