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Bill: Guild Socialism
Details
Submitted by[?]: Aryan Kommunisten Partei
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: September 2451
Description[?]:
| WORKERS' CONTROL THROUGH INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY 1. Syndicalism, or Guild Socialism, stands for social justice and recognises the right of the individual to work for his family and himself, always provided this does not conflict with the well being of others. Syndicalism, therefore, will not interfere with individuals who own shops, who run farms and small workshops: in particular those who launch new industries. Teams of technicians may work on new projects in industry, but the initial invention or, later, the guiding ability is almost always the work of an individual or a leader. If the individual is destroyed, progress is destroyed. Syndicalism, therefore, will leave the way clear for individual initiative. All it demands is that such individuals observe the social law of adequate wages and suitable conditions of work. The individual shall be protected and, in fact, encouraged for the betterment of the whole. 2. Industries which have grown too big for the management of one individual will be Syndicalised. They will pass to the full control of those who work in them. The workers will form an Assembly, to take the place of the old shareholders:they will meet at regular intervals to elect the industry's Chairman, Directors and other executives from their own ranks. Each worker will have an equal vote after a probationary period. At the end of each year the directors will distribute the profits among the members of the Assembly. Similarly, the Assembly may be called together by a majority point of view at any time during the year for questioning the Directors. Chairmen and Directors will receive from the Assembly full executive powers to conduct the industry through an agreed period, at the end of which they will account for their stewardship to the Assembly, which will either dismiss them or confirm them for a further period. 3. Although control of industry will be handed to the workers in the shortest possible time, all cannot be achieved overnight. Therefore, some measure of part-control will be given immediately to the workers until full control can be arranged. This interim period will also serve to acquaint workers' representatives with the running of industry at top level. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:23:19, September 04, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Guild Socialism |
| Message | No, no and no. |
| Date | 01:25:39, September 05, 2007 CET | From | Jewish-Christian Alliance of Patriots | To | Debating the Guild Socialism |
| Message | haha |
| Date | 19:31:48, September 05, 2007 CET | From | Aryan Kommunisten Partei | To | Debating the Guild Socialism |
| Message | Oh oh oh Chi minh! |
| Date | 19:34:37, September 05, 2007 CET | From | Party for the Republic | To | Debating the Guild Socialism |
| Message | We support the legalization of Worker's Councils (which are set to be banned by the Conservative Economic Reform package), but can't support this program. |
| Date | 19:37:28, September 05, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Guild Socialism |
| Message | Communism is a worldwide menace. Worker's Councils will be banned. |
| Date | 18:55:37, September 07, 2007 CET | From | Aryan Kommunisten Partei | To | Debating the Guild Socialism |
| Message | "Communism is a worldwide menace. Worker's Councils will be banned." You are truly reactionary, it is an honour to oppose you! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 47 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 234 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant." - Karl Popper |