Author:
Jace White, Manager of Government Relations
TOPLINE: The DSA promises an impossible future where “you work as much as you are able and no more than needed,” while supplying endless free goods.
More goods, less work
- DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” platform describes a socialist “future without capitalism,” where “you have no debt. You don’t need health insurance,” and “food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation” are “common goods” provided by the government.
- Creating these goods requires work, yet the DSA proposes government policies that will radically reduce the amount of work Americans do.
- The DSA mandates a “32-hour work week with full pay and benefits.”
- It proposes to make all essential goods free, removing an important incentive to working hard and advancing in one’s career.
- These anti-work policies would result in shortages of essential goods. Government planners would inevitably have to force people to work jobs they didn’t voluntarily agree to do in order to compensate for the shortages.
The government is your employer
- The DSA wants to “establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries.”
- Workers might have the “freedom” to decide which state-owned business to work for, but the government would dictate their job conditions, advancement, and pay.
But for now, DSA-Lite Union control
- The DSA wants workers to be subject to labor union bosses who are in cahoots with DSA politicians.
- DSA has called the so-called “PRO-Act” it’s “highest national priority.” The bill:
- Expands the government’s ability to install a new union that employees never voted for and repeals all Right to Work laws, giving union bosses the power to force workers to pay dues to the union
- By making it easier for unions to control new workplaces and take money from workers, the DSA would empower and fund its own political operations and allies while subjecting workers to coercive unions.
- Government control of companies would make it even harder to produce enough to meet workers’ desires. The post-WWII Polish United Workers’ Party was supposed to be a “workers’ state,” but when government control of the state left workers with unmet demands, workers discovered that the government that was supposed to work for them instead suppressed them.
BOTTOMLINE: DSA policies would drastically change labor laws to focus solely on the collective, forsaking workers’ freedom and opportunity for the sake of government and union power.
