Publisher's Synopsis
The 2016 election saw the rise of Democratic Socialism in the United States due to the candidacy of Bernie Sanders. While I first went to DSA functions in the 90s, it was just a year ago that it became important to begin paying dues. We can no longer be an insular debating club. Now is the time for action, not only electorally but through Occupying Capitalism. Unless we attack capitalism from the inside, we will never beat it electorally. Once we do, it will be the capitalists who will call for repealing Citizens United and we should hesitate until after they are thoroughly beaten. The goal of Cooperative Socialism is the equality of workers at the corporate level. If workers want to control both voting and production, they must start with the means of consumption, which includes housing, finance and in-home agriculture, as well as social services like education and health care. How do workers control te means of consumption? You ask them.Occupy Capitalism discusses how to control the means of consumption to control production and government, 21st Century green homes and transportation solutions, and building the employee-owned workplace of the future. Controllng the Means of Pay and Education covers equalizing management and worker pay while still producing innovation and paying for education from elementary to tech school and college and the resulting career through retirement, as well as the sports and entertainment industry (including funding stadium worker retirement and apprenticeship programs). Health Care Reform covers drugs, mental health and crime (and a plea of guilty by reason of insanity), senior healthcare, medial lines of credit, single payer catastrophic, medical eduation, malpractice and the inevitability of single payer.Paying for the Revolution covers my reaction to the Tax and Job Cuts Act (not a typo), comprehensive tax reform with value added taxes (domestic military and civil spending), net business receipts taxes (social spending with employer offsets) and high income and inheritance surtaxes (to pay interest, fund overseas deployments and retire the debt), the real solution for Social Security (more kids through a higher Child Tax Credit) and using it to expand ownership (including equally crediting the employer contribution)..Global Justice covers cooperative multi-nationals, converting socialist economies, immigration, operatioinalizeing social and environmental justice at home and abroad, peace in Israel, and lesssons from the war in Iraq.. Exploring Space goes to Mars, gravitational propulsion, how aerospace can work cooperatively (Elon Musk, give me a call), and space infrastructure and orbiting stations.Catholic Radicalism defends Secularism, describes Catholic Radicalism, defends belief as a choice, looks for the mind and soul, asks if beauty, truth and love are eternal, explores the Crucifixion to ask if God is an Ogre, detail liberation morality, the limits of state and religion power and fixing the Church.Human Dignity addresses the limits of state and religious power, a defense of secularism, gay rights (both to employment and religious weddings), reproductive rights (both positive and negative - because everyone has a right to life vis-a-vis the government as there is no mandatory abortion), and racial justice.Free DC covers congressional meddling (and the right to vote on all changes to Home Fool proposed by Congress), freeing DC's budget, local government issues (and trading a commuter tax for housing DC felons in Maryland and Virginia), getting voting rights or statehood, an initiative on expelling Congress and new language for H.R. 51. (including a retrocession vote in the Maryland General Assembly, which removes GOP objections to the process). Government Reform includes the budget process, efficiency, elections and campaign finance, picking better polical bureaucrats, civil service reform, functional reorganization and allied government.
