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Bill: On Property Ownership
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hizb al-'Amal al-Thawriy
Status[?]: passed
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: December 4475
Description[?]:
Members of the Supreme Workers' Council, Every revolution is a process of reorganization of social relations, and our is no different. It is not enough for workers' councils to merely collectively control the output and management of business and industry. The means of production must include all that which labour, land and capital produce or else class divisions can never be dissolved. The private ownership of physical and intellectual property by the upper classes in bourgeois capitalist society is used as a means to exploit and develop a lower class from the mass of the population. This process was nowhere more clear than here in Kafuristan where property ownership determined citizenship and determined democratic participation, where property ownership was a direct tool of social and economic oppression and exclusion. The collective ownership of physical and intellectual property enables the emancipation of the masses and allows our society to transition to one in which the products of society are created and produced for the benefit of every person in society. The lesson of socialism is that the maximum welfare of the individual lies in, and in the long run is indistinguishable from, the realization of the maximum welfare of the society. I commend this Bill to the Supreme Workers' Council. Jonathan Siaj Minister of Finance |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on the source code of software.
Old value:: The government allows both open and closed source software.
Current: The government requires that all source be opened.
Proposed: The government requires that all source be opened.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Eminent Domain.
Old value:: The government may not seize private property.
Current: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Proposed: The government may seize private property for any reason.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Current: The state contracts with private companies to provide public housing.
Proposed: The state owns and maintains all housing.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on energy generation.
Old value:: Private power stations provide energy for the entire power grid.
Current: Small scale private electrical generation is permitted but most energy is generated by a government-owned company.
Proposed: All power stations are publicly owned.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: The state owns all defence industries.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Current: The government operates large, national banks, but small community based private banks are allowed.
Proposed: The government operates and owns all banks.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Energy regulation.
Old value:: Energy is provided by private companies which are not subject to any special regulations.
Current: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Proposed: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change National, cultural and historic sites and monuments.
Old value:: The state encourages and funds private efforts towards the protection of cultural and historical heritage.
Current: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Proposed: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the post office
Old value:: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are regulated.
Current: There is a nationalised post office. Private post office agencies are allowed to exist, and the services provided by them are not regulated.
Proposed: There is a nationalised post office agency in the nation. Private ones are banned.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: Private companies operate TOCs throughout the country.
Current: Private companies operate regional TOC's. The national service is provided by a publicly owned, national TOC.
Proposed: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Article 11
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on the nation's power grid.
Old value:: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Current: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Proposed: The national grid is fully owned by the state.
Article 12
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on airports.
Old value:: The government leaves airports entirely to the private sector.
Current: The government has some involvement in the ownership and operation of airports, but leaves a role for the private sector too.
Proposed: The government owns and operates all airports.
Article 13
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on internet service providers (ISPs).
Old value:: Private companies provide internet service throughout the nation, without government interference.
Current: The government controls and provides internet service throughout the nation. Private ISPs are banned.
Proposed: The government controls and provides internet service throughout the nation. Private ISPs are banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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Vote | Seats | |
yes |
Total Seats: 100 | |
no | Total Seats: 0 | |
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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