Communist Party ideals 6/20/17

Towards a Communist Party

Labor Program 6/20/17

http://www.cpusa.org/article/towards-a-communist-party-labor-program/>

 

I was thumbing through some old magazine articles I read in 2017, and I came upon the list below. It is a wish list of things the Communist Party of the U.S.A. published in that year.

 

• Real national health care—Medicare for All.
•  Reform of labor legislation, creating a real right of workers to organize without company interference, with stiff penalties for labor law violations.
•  Guaranteed income for all, paid for by taxing the top 1%.
•  Free education for all.
•  Green energy-based infrastructure, with basic industrial, union jobs targeting minority communities.
•  National program for building affordable housing, with homes targeting minority communities.
•  National industrial program, with public ownership of main manufacturing facilities and national production goals.
•  Cutting military, with jobs going into rebuilding inner city communities.
•  Apprenticeships with union jobs for inner city youth as part of rebuilding cities.
•  Real, guaranteed, retirement security for all.
•  Shorten the workweek, maintain pay levels.

 

Does this list look familiar to you? It is strangely reminiscent of the programs being pushed by the liberal/progressive left, today. Oh, the names have changed, the Communists have changed the name to “Democrats,” but we can recognize them by their wish list. These goals are almost identical to the goals of the progressive left. They are the same as the ideals being pushed today by K. Harris, Joe Biden, Charles Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. Things don’t change much, they just become more politically correct.