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Bill: An End to Reformism
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Party of Ikradon (ML)
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: November 2562
Description[?]:
| Reformism and short-sighted sectionalism is betraying the revolutionary progress. We must strip back the capitalist welfare state to make obvious the brutality and injustice of the capitalist system, and ensure the proletariat is not bought off by a slight increase in standard of living. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state guarantees child benefit to all families.
Current: Child benefit policies are left to local governments.
Proposed: The state does not provide child benefit.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Current: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Proposed: Health care is entirely private.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government. However, the provision of this is not to exceed a certain period of time.
Proposed: All veterans shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state operates a compulsory, public pension system.
Current: The state offers a voluntary public pension, combined with other voluntary private pensions.
Proposed: The state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Current: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Proposed: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Current: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Proposed: All housing is privately-owned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:47:31, April 15, 2008 CET | From | Boston Tea Party | To | Debating the An End to Reformism |
| Message | You know, it's interesting that you combine "capitalist" and "welfare state", when my party is predominantly a capitalist one but despises the handout mentality and agrees with all of these points. |
| Date | 18:53:38, April 15, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Ikradon (ML) | To | Debating the An End to Reformism |
| Message | The welfare state is an integral part of the reactionary and counterrevolutionary nature of the state. By keeping the working class marginally above poverty it masks the true nature of capitalism and diminishes the revolutionary potential of the working class. By stripping away this system of an artificially high standard of living there shall be an increased class polarisation, and the working class will see capitalism for the brutal and exploitative system it really is. Only then will mass revolutionary, as opposed to reformist, movements form within the working class. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 246 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 275 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 78 |
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