Andaras Prime
18-06-2007, 14:08
The primary policy objective of the party is the establishment of a predominate ‘Providence State’, a welfare community based society that exists under the principle that in need, freedom is latent. The state would operate on consensus democratic principle. The primary societal concern and opposition of the party is to the rapid growth of deregulation and privatization in the workplace. Since work is the primary subject of a citizens life, it should be the predominate role of the state in employment insurance, that is security of employment from excessive profit driven sackings and redundancies. The party sees the growth of individual based employment arrangement, in most cases where employees can be isolated and alienated from the entirety of the workforce, and forced on private contracts in which lower wages or lost entitlements may occur, and if they do not agree and sign they are sacked. The party sees this rise in unregulated and volatile employment as an inherent danger and catalyst of class antagonism in society.
In many cases, in particular in the retail and easily replaceable employment fields, employees are pressured beyond all reasonable bounds into excessively high quotas of work, and with the rise of technology can be monitored even down to the amount of toilet breaks and how many calls they make a day (using the emerging telemarketing industry as an example). The party believes any person has the right never to be pressured and scrutinized on a daily fashion in such a way, and believes all people have a right to a secure and enjoyable workplace. In the blind pursuit of commercialism and profit, the ordinary people have to go immense pressures on this daily basis, and they have a right to know, and the party wishes it to be known that they do not have to be pressured in such a way. The party feels that in this time of economic prosperity that our new found wealth in our western nation should not be squandered in the blind pursuit of the enrichment of an elite business few at the expense of the vast many.
That in this emerging individualist workplace employees can simply be taken into an office with five or more managers, and they alone and away from the positive support of their workmates, and that if they don’t sign the contract or agree to breakdown inducing work quotas, they are sacked and replaced, thus repeating the cycle. The party support collective based bargaining with legislation to ensure a fair and enjoyable workplace for all people. The party believes that government should be leading this change of culture in the workplace and to the transition of the Providence State, which is itself a democratic consensus society where employees are work partners, and not wage bonds. The party supports a workplace run in democratic consensus, with all those contributing to its output of labor and consumption to have equal voice in its operation. In this way the party wants to move away from can be effectively summed up as the ‘Tyranny within the Democracy’, that is a political society run according to common public consensus and majority, thus having private institutions within it that operate on wholly undemocratic principles.
Employees clearly know who the boss is, and his power over them; can they just not elect him? Kick him from office, of course they can’t and when people live their whole adult lives in such a pressured world, they might as well have liven in a tyranny for all their life, this ‘state within a state’ is something the party is committed to changing for the good of all people. Furthermore, the party rejects the notion of unburdening personal responsibility and pressure which characterize this emerging volatile and speculate market in which no one is safe. The party believes everyone has a right to housing through subsidization, progressive taxation, free government paid healthcare, and the security of knowing that the state and the wider community is looking after them. A guaranteed annual income (universal basic income), and the establishment of a work partner employment system done on democratic consensus and discussion to achieve reasonable results, and to reduce the horrible feelings of isolation and domination in work (and society).
The overriding principle is that in need, freedom is latent, meaning that if you are in need, you are beholden to someone who has that product, the party seeks to provide. Overall, the party is profoundly humanitarian, and believes life should be enjoyed by all in the community, that a sense of security in self-determination, and freedom with your peers. And that a government state, elected by the people themselves, should act as this public guardian against the ailments of poverty and isolation, and to bring people together and engage with each other. The party believes through rebate, subsidy and general welfare, raised through progressive taxation, is the role of the Providence State is the happiness and equity of its people.
Andaras Prime
General Secretary of the Providence State Party
P.S: This was just an experiment of mine in discussion with my Young Labor political branch recently, the role of government as 'social interventionist'.
In many cases, in particular in the retail and easily replaceable employment fields, employees are pressured beyond all reasonable bounds into excessively high quotas of work, and with the rise of technology can be monitored even down to the amount of toilet breaks and how many calls they make a day (using the emerging telemarketing industry as an example). The party believes any person has the right never to be pressured and scrutinized on a daily fashion in such a way, and believes all people have a right to a secure and enjoyable workplace. In the blind pursuit of commercialism and profit, the ordinary people have to go immense pressures on this daily basis, and they have a right to know, and the party wishes it to be known that they do not have to be pressured in such a way. The party feels that in this time of economic prosperity that our new found wealth in our western nation should not be squandered in the blind pursuit of the enrichment of an elite business few at the expense of the vast many.
That in this emerging individualist workplace employees can simply be taken into an office with five or more managers, and they alone and away from the positive support of their workmates, and that if they don’t sign the contract or agree to breakdown inducing work quotas, they are sacked and replaced, thus repeating the cycle. The party support collective based bargaining with legislation to ensure a fair and enjoyable workplace for all people. The party believes that government should be leading this change of culture in the workplace and to the transition of the Providence State, which is itself a democratic consensus society where employees are work partners, and not wage bonds. The party supports a workplace run in democratic consensus, with all those contributing to its output of labor and consumption to have equal voice in its operation. In this way the party wants to move away from can be effectively summed up as the ‘Tyranny within the Democracy’, that is a political society run according to common public consensus and majority, thus having private institutions within it that operate on wholly undemocratic principles.
Employees clearly know who the boss is, and his power over them; can they just not elect him? Kick him from office, of course they can’t and when people live their whole adult lives in such a pressured world, they might as well have liven in a tyranny for all their life, this ‘state within a state’ is something the party is committed to changing for the good of all people. Furthermore, the party rejects the notion of unburdening personal responsibility and pressure which characterize this emerging volatile and speculate market in which no one is safe. The party believes everyone has a right to housing through subsidization, progressive taxation, free government paid healthcare, and the security of knowing that the state and the wider community is looking after them. A guaranteed annual income (universal basic income), and the establishment of a work partner employment system done on democratic consensus and discussion to achieve reasonable results, and to reduce the horrible feelings of isolation and domination in work (and society).
The overriding principle is that in need, freedom is latent, meaning that if you are in need, you are beholden to someone who has that product, the party seeks to provide. Overall, the party is profoundly humanitarian, and believes life should be enjoyed by all in the community, that a sense of security in self-determination, and freedom with your peers. And that a government state, elected by the people themselves, should act as this public guardian against the ailments of poverty and isolation, and to bring people together and engage with each other. The party believes through rebate, subsidy and general welfare, raised through progressive taxation, is the role of the Providence State is the happiness and equity of its people.
Andaras Prime
General Secretary of the Providence State Party
P.S: This was just an experiment of mine in discussion with my Young Labor political branch recently, the role of government as 'social interventionist'.