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Bill: Nationalise the means of production!
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Workers Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2083
Description[?]:
| Capitalism is a cancer on Endralonian society. Its time to rationally plan the economy for the benefit of all not the greed of the few! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: The state owns the commanding heights of the economy and all major industries, but private ownership is allowed in the minor industries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:45:09, July 20, 2005 CET | From |  Communist Workers Party | To | Debating the Nationalise the means of production! |
| Message | I know you'll all vote against it but what the hay! |
| Date | 08:32:37, July 21, 2005 CET | From | Primus Inter Pares | To | Debating the Nationalise the means of production! |
| Message | Capitalism isn't that bad. Every system has it faults, you see what happened in Russia when the communists planned the economy. The Keynesian party believes in free market but the gouvernement has to correct the market imperfection. |
| Date | 19:58:41, July 21, 2005 CET | From | Communist Workers Party | To | Debating the Nationalise the means of production! |
| Message | Yes, in Russia everyone had free education, free healthcare and a roof over their heads. They lifted a backward nation out of feudalism and made it the second biggest power on the planet. Since the fall of the planned economy life expectancy has fallen from 76 to 54, crime and prostitution have skyrocketed as has homelessness. |
| Date | 20:00:25, July 21, 2005 CET | From | Communist Workers Party | To | Debating the Nationalise the means of production! |
| Message | Our gripe with Russia was not its planned economy but its undemocratic nature. As Trotsky put it, "The planned economy needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen." Read "The Revolution Betrayed" by Trotsky for a more expansive treatise on Stalinist Russia. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 11 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 47 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 42 |
| Random fact: Cabinet ministers who disagree seriously with the head of government would usually be expected to resign. Parties within the cabinet may attempt to manoeuvre to replace the head of government though, for example by proposing a new cabinet bill or voting for an early election. |
| Random quote: "I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist." - Nikita Khrushchev |