As you will see below, when you have the kind of success The Socialist Party of America has had in achieving its Platform since 1928, I guess there really isn't a need to exist anymore. Socialist Party of America, Platform of 1928 | |
1. "Nationalization of our natural resources, beginning with the coal mines and water sites, particularly at Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals." | |
2. "A publicly owned giant power system under which the federal government shall cooperate with the states and municipalities in the distribution of electrical energy to the people at cost." | |
3. "National ownership and democratic management of railroads and other means of transportation and communication." | |
4. "An adequate national program for flood control, flood relief, reforestation, irrigation, and reclamation." | |
5. "Immediate government relief of the unemployed by the extension of all public works and a program of long range planning of public works ... All persons thus employed to be engaged at hours and wages fixed by bona-fide labor unions." | |
6. "Loans to states and municipalities without interest for the purpose of carrying on public works and the taking of such other measures as will lessen widespread misery." | |
7. "A system of unemployment insurance." | |
8. "The nation-wide extension of public employment agencies in cooperation with city federations of labor." | |
9. "A system of health and accident insurance and of old age pensions as well as unemployment insurance." | |
10. "Shortening the workday" and "Securing to every worker a rest period of no less than two days in each week." | |
11. "Enacting of an adequate federal anti-child labor amendment." | |
12. "Abolition of the brutal exploitation of convicts under the contract system and substitution of a cooperative organization of industries in penitentiaries and workshops for the benefit of convicts and their dependents." | |
13. "Increase of taxation on high income levels, of corporation taxes and inheritance taxes, the proceeds to be used for old age pensions and other forms of social insurance." | |
14. "Appropriation by taxation of the annual rental value of all land held for speculation." |
September 24, 2010
What Happened to the American Socialist Party?
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