Naše politická skupina v Evropském parlamentu - Stránky 7 - Trojka třetího

xChaos (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] we have the same problem with @[email protected] - we are constantly labeled "extreme left", when we are actually just centre left (at best). For me, discussing what are left, radical left and extreme left positions and policies definitely makes sense. For example, I support the idea of Basic income, instead of excessive labor regulations. For me, as a former entrepreneur (perhaps not very successful, but with some experience), the regulations strip important information from the pricing, so I would somehow like to see free market and social welfare state to run side by side, without one destroying the very basics of other. For market, it is the process of establishing the prices by supply and demand (which makes market essentially a distributed computing system) and for state it is everything related to rules, education, culture and generally values not based on scarcity (and I oppose artificial scarcity, as well as ignoring negative externalities). I am maybe not typical Pirate party member, but this still does not place average Pirate "extreme left". For me, the radical and extreme left ideas, besides nationalization of industries, are eg. 100% marginal income tax rate (effectively limiting maximum income). Also I kind of doubt the normal-left notion of labor unions, which just increase labor price by monopolizing it - instead, basic-income based societies looks like something, which could produce stable, ecosystem and provide some definition of freedom which could last - not really egalitarian, but also not totally predatory. You can have several left approaches to egalitarianism: sometimes it is emphasis on the immorality of being "rich", which after all has mainly social and political consequences (luxury life in isolation is just marginal strategy of the rich). "Inequality is to be avoided, prevented and the existing perhaps punished" (extreme left). "We should try to maximize production" (socialists).