Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Sunday, September 6, 2009

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Industrial Democracy (self) today


The industrial democracy is the term generally refers to Olof Palme's self. It refers to the participation of workers in the management and direction of their own businesses. This idea represents a break with Marxist principles and the acceptance of an original proposal or the anarcho-syndicalist libertarian movement. Remember that in the 60 and 70, this idea has some popularity to one side and the other of the Iron Curtain (I mean the Yugoslav Communists.) For him, self is a step in the development and expansion of democracy, that in his view, should not only political, but should cover all areas.

Oddly enough, today we can find self-management experiences. In Argentina, scheduled after the collapse of its economy by financial sharks and their political allies, has emerged the movement to re-start, a new way of saying the same thing. The video that I put under " Taking" , deals with this. We can see a proposal for Olof Palme (and the libertarian movement) is still alive:

Saturday, September 5, 2009

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Part of the letter to Willy Brandt and Bruno Kreisky, March 17, 1972:

A rough social climate characterized the daily lives of the people. (XIX century) The labor movement had a ideology which allowed to explain the current situation while showing the way to a better social system. The protest itself was not enough. Thus was created an organization that was to get the transformation of society. So far there was agreement, but differences on the method to be followed were great. There were groups who believed in the total collapse of society and wanted to collaborate actively to produce it-The revolution was to bring the power to build a new society on the ruins of the old order, others wanted to transform society by peaceful means. They talked about patience and responsibility, but at the same time advocating for change, by decision and firmness in setting goals. Whoever decided to take the path of reformism was partly motivated by the historical and real opportunities. Thus, the general level of education of the people created better conditions for democratic work. In Sweden, democratic popular movements played a decisive role. We had time to build a democratic tradition and we succeeded in this task.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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History of the labor movement do we need the social

Part of the letter to Willy Brandt, Bruno Kreisky, March 17, 1972:

Democratic socialism is a liberation movement. The working-class struggle for liberation found its organizational expression in the labor movement. This fight had several aspects: it was mainly to increase production, making it more effective and organized differently "Equally important was to achieve a fairer distribution of social product through appropriate legislation, tax policy and In short, a set of social measures and policies to ensure greater security and equal rights for all citizens. But the desire for freedom come even further. The working class wants to get rid of the oppression exerted on it through the capitalist control of economic power. Demoracia make possible in all areas of society and to replace the simple exercise of power by democratic forms of work organization and community was, and remains, the core of democratic socialism. Conservative parties are willing to walk with us a part of this journey, but because their positions are based on a liberal-capitalist ideology, they can not want to intervene in the economic life of society, even when security and full employment of its citizens require, often, that intervention.

Our struggle, democratic socialism, for democracy in all spheres of society means that, unlike the conservatism, we must represent a positive, optimistic man. Conservatism sees man as a creature to be controlled in different ways by an elite in power, the hierarchy of class society. The social and economic stratification is used as a means to exercise that control. In our opinion, this leads to a minimization of the individual, limits their ability to conduct and prevents the formation and the entrenchment of a genuine community within society. Of course, democratic socialism is also an ideology that poses certain requirements, required to increase self-reliance and communal, the common good, to be placed in the foreground. As an ideology requires above all a great solidarity, because only through it can man be master of his own destiny and build for the future. Otherwise, the man will see how that future will configure anonymous forces, technocrats or power structures.

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stages of social democracy. Redistribution of wealth

Olof Palme divided the recent history of his country in three stages. The engine of historical progress was the Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP. An interesting task may be trying to extrapolate these stages to other countries.

1. Political democracy, a struggle for the achievement of parliamentary democracy in the terms we know today. At this stage replaces oligarchic type parliamentary democracy and despotism, by a parliamentary democracy with genuine plurality. In Sweden in this regard we have the achievement of universal male suffrage (1909) the 8-hour day and universal male suffrage (1918).

2. Social Democracy; struggle to achieve an egalitarian society, with the creation of the welfare state and a tax policy that allows the redistribution of wealth. This will be done through economic planning and the establishment of a mixed economy (free market + state planning) for the existence of a universal social Serbs and accessible to everyone. In Sweden this happens from the 20's, and especially after 1932, since which time the SAP will remain continuously in power for 44 years. An important milestone in this process was the creation of pension fund in 1956. The electoral success of the SAP is explained taking into account the success of social policies (Keynesian initially) to address and overcome the crisis of 29, and in general, to increase the level and quality of life of most citizens.

3. Industrial Democracy, the extension of democracy into the workplace and economic development. with the increasing participation of workers in the management and direction of their enterprises, ie the self . The basis of this stage is the strength of trade unionism in Sweden in the seventies had the highest unionization rates in the West. Almost 90% of the workers were part of the Trade Union Confederation (LO) and 70% of office workers and officials were accused in the TDO. This was the recipe of Olof Palme out of crisis of 70. As he died before he could carry to term, and his successors left the project, we consider that this stage was abandoned without exceeding objectives.


The arrival of neoliberalism, and the reorientation of economic policies, we can speak of regression in the implementation of the objectives of social democracy. On the one hand, it has slipped in the political democracy, as the assimilation of the principles of neoliberalism by parties calling themselves social democrats, has reduced the plurality and has become a dynamic similar to that of democracy oligarchic and chieftaincy of the nineteenth century, ie turnismo in power without policy change. On the other hand the new recipes have been a decline in the social gains achieved during the stage of social democracy , but of course, this decline has been different in pace and scope depending on the country. Finally, instead of moving towards industrial democracy , is gone in the opposite direction. Now the power of workers has fallen sharply as a result of the processes arising from economic liberalization and globalization, those that have increased their power is the economic and financial oligarchy, until nearly set above even democratic governments. So we can speak of a new reactionary stage, instead of moving from social democracy to industrial democracy, we have moved from social democracy to the global plutocracy .

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