I
shall delete the contents below if I feel they are keeping me from
making money or otherwise causing me trouble:
October
1st, 2005
The central
objective of left wing policies is to expand equal rights for all and
reduce privilege. Any policy that seeks to reserve or expand privilege
or diminish equal rights for all is therefore a right wing policy.
Right wing policies justify themselves on productivity increase. Left
wing policies justify themselves on equity, however, they must rely on
productivity increase in order to promote equity in deed and
significantly and on a sustainable basis. Due to imperfections in human
society, at least for the time being, left wing policies and right wing
policies must serve like two legs, by which the society would walk the
route of progress: left, right, left, right.... However, once in a
while, as productivity level reaches a major milestone, or
threshold, it is time for revolution; this is how the Industrial
Revolution and replacement of feudal order by capitalist order - or, to
use a more general term of my own, *order of industrialization /
urbanization*, came about. But productivity has continued to go up ever
since (and productivity really has nowhere to go but up, unless
interrupted by war or other catastrophe) and it might very well be the
time now for another revolution....
September 30, 2005
The leftists, especially in developed
countries should push for the following:
1-
Mandatory higher education in arts
and sciences -- this is a key
factor, a highly educated population is a must to build a system that
can replace capitalism; it is above all a matter of culture (the
Russians failed building the requisite culture, obviously, and there
must be lessons there). The
new culture would have to support, among other things, ways to
replace bureaucrats by computers and elected councils and a switch from
representative democracy to direct democracy.
2-
Automation and higher productivity
all the time, this too, is a key factor; abundance would be a
key
attribute of the new system (remember how they define economics on the
basis of scarce resources, and remember that German social democracy or
American New Deal -- they now need a *New-New-Deal*! -- would
simply not be possible without high productivity, like
only one percent of the population producing enough foodstuff to feed
the entire nation).
3- Revise intellectual property
rights, for example, legalize reverse engineering, this supports
item
number 2 above on productivity. Pay attention, support, and further
develop new forms of ownership and business models, such Open
Source Software -- some people are now trying to apply this to
pharmaceutical sector, for example. Do spend public funds in R&D
and get all governments to do the same, thus both getting every body on
equal footing and contributing to overall productivity objective.
4- Make capital outflows, not inflows,
a bit expensive -- yes, tax'em!/:-) The scheme as proposed by
what's-his-name-I-forgot is too coarse, crude, taxing both inflows and
outflows. Only outflows should
be taxed by a national government (which would certainly be
equitable) and then the proceeds thereof could of course be used to
finance schemes for encouraging domestic investment, including
foreign capital inflow for direct investment. Thus, for a given
unit of capital moving across borders, taxation on exit would be at
least in part offset by the investment promotion in the
target country for investment. And I think this would, in
addition to being equitable, also be efficient, for it would likely
reduce rate of failed investment operations.
5- Oppose wars that are designed to
defer collapse of capitalism and to shift wealth from high
productivity
sectors to low productivity sectors and to "kill the beast (the beast
here is budget surplus and so money for social spending)" inside one's
country -- and
not really necessary to protect any vital national interests, what a
big lie! -- Iraq war, for example.
6- Redefine and strengthen the family
through primarily redefining and strengthening status of women
-- and
I'd start with Catholic understanding of marriage. I feel the family
would play a key role in building the new culture. Alongside this, keep
or bring back conscription. People, normal people, civilian
people,
fathers and mothers and sons and daughters, willing and able to provide
for their own national security is I think also essential for the new
culture and also for avoiding unjust wars and defending the new regime.
7- Meanwhile promote selected processes
worldwide, including German tripartite
process and at the same time promote new Anglo-American *inventions*
centered around "shareholder activism", including "socially responsible
investment" (yes, yes, including the eco stuff, the Green stuff -- the
Greens need to understand that it would take the greater socio-economic
and political-military agenda like this ten-item agenda here to really
implement a truly Green agenda).
8- Always support higher taxes and
better social safety net.
9- The biggest issue would be to
separate capital ownership from entrepreneurship; shift to collective
capital ownership while keeping private entrepreneurship, but at the
same time raise an entirely new breed of entrepreneurs motivated by
factors other than selfish material interest, motivation that would
allow them work with collectively owned capital and also achieve higher
productivity than capitalist, selfish-interest-based system. Principles should regulate the markets,
not the other way around. (Capitalists, of course, want it that
money regulate both the markets AND the principles!)
10- Remember; the new system would
have to achieve higher productivity levels than capitalist system; and
then turn that productivity advantage to military superiority. Without
this military and security outcome, the capitalists will not allow any
new system to survive.
Simple, no? :-)