Economic Democracy
The show "Economic Democracy" is presented by Even.
SO what is Economic Democracy?
Economic Democracy is about distributing a degree of society's total wealth to all its members as a right of citizenship through every citizen having a stake in all the different forms of socety's wealth production, thus establishing a greater connection to total economic activity for all by having its natural function being an increased quality of life to every citizen. Economic Democracy promotes this as the natural spirit of co-operation in society, as opposed to the currently engineered spirt of competition, for producing the optimum outcomes and greatest quality of life in the utilisation of a society's resources.
Overall,
Economic Democracy promotes universal access to common resources that
are typically privatized by Corporate/Finance capitalism and
centralised
by State Socialism. Economic Democracy emphasises that full political
rights can not be fulfilled without full economic rights and that the
freedom and economic security of the individuals that make up a society
to pursue liberty and happiness will always have their supply and
demand handicapped by the current debt based monetary system.
So
the show "Economic Democracy" will be looking at the world and New
Zealand through the perspective of monetary reform movements past and
present;
what they had to say then and now; Social Credit principles and why all
of the above might make more sense for you in comparison to the effects
of the currently non self-liquidating debt-based financial system.
"The early Victorian political economists agreed in ascribing all "values" to three sentials: land, labour and capital. Without staying at the moment to discuss the unsatisfactory meanings which were frequently attached to these words, we may notice that, the three together being defined as the sources of all wealth, the possession of one or the other of them seemed logically defensible as a claim, and collectively, the only valid claim to the wealth produced. But it is rapidly recieving recognition that, while there might be a rough truth in this argument during the centuries prior to the industial revolution, consequent on the inventive period following the Renaissance, and culminating in the steam engine, the spinning-jenny, and so forth, there is now a fourth factor in wealth production that far exceeds that of the other three, which may be expressed as the "progress of the industrial arts".
Quite clearly, no one person can be said to have a monpoly share in this; it is the legacy of countless numbers of men and women, many of whose names are forgotten and the majority of whom are dead. And since it is a cultural legacy, it seems difficult to deny that the general community as a whole, and not by any qualification of land, labour, or capital, are the proper legatees. But if the ownership of wealth produced vests in the owners of the factors contributed to its production, and the owners of the legacy of the industrial arts are the general community, it seems equally difficult to deny that the chief owners, and rightful beneficiaries of the modern productive system, can be shown to be the individuals composing the community as such." -C H Douglas- Social Credit.
