Thursday, May 20, 2010

Communism in the 21st Century

This post is an attempt to keep alive my parents' left-wing values, that we should endeavour to create a workers' paradise. The Communist ideology they once subscribed to turned out to be a failed ideology, since a one-party system denies the public's right to punish unfavourable governments by voting them out of office, and centrally planned economies are hopelessly inefficient. Instead, we should have multiple political parties and multiple enterprises in every market. However, instead of each enterprise being beholden to only the shareholders, management has equal responsibility to look out for the low-level workers. Some kind of computer algorithm could be worked out that applies to every market, which measures how worker-friendly are the policies of each enterprise. The higher the score, the less taxes paid by each enterprise.

Why can't the NDP have such a policy? Since most people are at or near the bottom rung of whatever workplace they work in, then the bulk of the population would benefit from such a worker-centric policy. The only drawback is that our enterprises would be less competitive than those enterprises in other countries. However, the benefits of having a workers' paradise in a relatively free market economy would make up for the lack of international competitiveness. If the NDP adopted such a policy, they might even stand a chance of forming a government, since it's in most people's best interest to having a workers' paradise here in Canada. If you agree with me that the NDP should adopt having a worker-centric computer algorithm to calculate a certain percentage of corporate taxes, I urge you to send an email to your local MPP or MP, if he or she is in the NDP. Let's make Canada the first Communist Workers' Paradise in the 21st Century (just don't call it Communism, it should have some other name, since everyone knows that Communism is a failed ideology). That's my two cents worth when it comes to government's role in society.

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