>>2839259I would argue that a crucial demand is the guarantee of public employment—a measure that would easily attract many people, preventing them from being co-opted by reactionary prejudices and fostering solidarity among all workers by directly undermining the industrial reserve army maintained by capitalists. This includes the right to radical unionization free from the control of capitalists and the bourgeois state; mandatory unionization for all workers; wage equalization across unions to encourage joint struggle and discourage betrayal or co-optation; and the legal right for workers to defend themselves and one another in solidarity. Furthermore, any worker subjected to intense exploitation would receive compensation for unpaid time—covering the gap between their actual pay and the average wage—with costs and penalties levied against the capitalists. State-owned enterprises should compete with private firms across all sectors, offering low-cost products to drive private companies into bankruptcy so they can be expropriated, nationalized, collectivized, and occupied by workers. All pensions must be removed from capitalist control and established as public guarantees independent of profit motives, with costs covered by the capitalists who exploited the worker, backed by a government guarantee. All banks should be nationalized and managed by a workers' council to provide affordable credit to the population and incentivize cooperatives, nationalization, and socialization. Laws mandating fiscal responsibility must be abolished. A legal minimum wage must be mandated—determined annually by a workers' statistical commission based on local food prices and living costs. Finally, regulations must ensure that immigrant workers are paid no less than native workers, with any violations resulting in penalties—including back pay and additional fines—levied against the capitalist.
All of these measures serve to advance the class struggle and prepare for a revolutionary situation, while simultaneously plunging the bourgeois state into crisis and squeezing capitalist profits to fuel further conflict. Naturally, the intention would be to abolish private property, the anarchy of production, and social classes during the dictatorship of the proletariat, wherein the proletariat acquires political supremacy in order to socialize the economy.