Full Employment & Social Investment

The democratization of the investment process is the key to a socialist strategy for full employment during the short and medium term.

In saying this, I do not suggest that we socialists have “the” answer. There is no such thing. But we do have an analysis that points public policy toward our common goal and makes it possible to begin exploring workable solutions. In outlining a few of them I cannot here cover all significant areas. For instance, the UAW contract negotiations in 1976 opened a campaign for the four day week. Here and now, that is an important tool for achieving full employment. In the middle distance, it poses the question of the very nature of work. We are not, after all, in favor of everyone having &#...