From DSA Program: Worker Deserve Better
Imagine taking a day off from work in a future without capitalism.
It might not feel as badly needed as it does now. You enjoy your work; it’s interesting to you, and you’re well trained for it. You work as much as you are able and no more than needed, and you would control your own labor and see it going to good use. It’s not just a job to pay the bills.
Speaking of bills: you don’t really have them anymore(!!)
You have no debt. You don’t need health insurance. You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.
OK, enough about bills. What do you do on your day off? Maybe in the morning, you walk your kids to school, run errands, or go to a doctor’s appointment. In the afternoon, you might play a sport, practice a new skill, read, plan a trip. In the evening, you could meet up with friends or family and eat together, maybe go to the movies or down to the park.
These are all familiar, everyday activities. A socialist day off could be like any good day now. But what if you were free to spend your time how you like without worrying about cost or dreading going back to work? What if you didn’t have to think about paying rent or loans at the end of the month, or saving for college, or affording groceries?
It’s been said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. But just because it isn’t easy to imagine now doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to make it happen.
Workers deserve more.
Speaking of bills: you don’t really have them anymore.
You have no debt.
You don’t need health insurance.
You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right.
Your retirement is publicly funded.
Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.
Guarantee universal healthcare at no cost to individuals,
including complete access to reproductive and gender-affirming care.
Expand healthcare access and quality by investing in new public hospitals and clinics.
Make all medical education and training public and free.
FREEDOM TO FLOURISH
Expand public resources to support recreation, learning, and social spaces accessible to all.
Establish paid family leave for all workers,
a 32 hour work week with full pay and benefits,
and a living minimum wage.
Provide free, quality public education from pre-K to college and cancel all student debt.
HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
Guarantee universal healthcare at no cost to individuals, including complete access to reproductive and gender-affirming care.
Expand healthcare access and quality by investing in new public hospitals and clinics.
Make all medical education and training public and free.
HOUSING FOR ALL
Housing is a human right.
Build new, publicly-owned social housing,
strictly regulate investment properties,
establish universal rent control,
and guarantee right to counsel for all tenants.
FINISH RECONSTRUCTION
End the legacies of slavery and colonialism.
Reinforce anti-discrimination laws.
Honor all treaties and tribal sovereignty.
Enact reparations and massively invest in good jobs, quality housing and infrastructure in neglected minority communities.
END MASS INCARCERATION AND POLICE IMMUNITY
Demilitarize police departments,
disempower police unions,
and redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system which protects the rich and jails the poor.
Treat drug addiction and mental illness as health issues, not crimes.
End qualified immunity and empower civilian oversight bodies with real authority over the police.
FEMINISM FOR ALL
Socialist feminism fights for queer liberation and the freedoms of all working class women.
Stop gender violence and end policies that oppress bodily autonomy and intimate life, including patriarchal restrictions on abortion, childbirth and childraising, gender expression and transition, marriage, and divorce.
Ban sex discrimination and ensure fair compensation and support for all forms of labor, including care work.
GREEN NEW DEAL
Workers must lead our democratic transition to a green future.
Pass a federal jobs guarantee.
Implement massive investment in sustainable, publicly owned energy and transit infrastructure.
Phase out the use of fossil fuels.
Reclaim and repair our earth's resources for all.
Doug here: So wonderful sounding!! It’s Paradise! Paid with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY?
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