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Our programme is determined by the combination of three fundamental ideas:

• Individual freedom and personal development for everybody through socially equal
  participation in a self-determined life and solidarity. This we consider to be the foremost
  guiding principle of a society of solidarity, which has overcome the dominance of profit.
  
  
• The subordination of the economy and ways of life to development in solidarity and to the
  conservation of nature. This we consider as our second guideline. It requires a socioecological
  turnaround towards sustainable development instead of profit-oriented growth.
  
  
• The implementation of these two dimensions will require a process of emancipation which
  will take time, and in the course of which democratic, social and ecological forces will do
  away with the predominance of capital and create the society of democratic socialism.

DIE LINKE fights:

• For a different, democratic economic order, which subordinates the market regulation
  of production and distribution to democratic, social and ecological frame definitions and
  controls. This order has to be founded on the public and democratically controlled
  ownership of general public service, social infrastructure, the energy industry and the
  finance sector as well as on the democratic socialization of further structure-setting
  sectors on the basis of state, municipal, cooperative or workforce ownership. The private
  sector of the economy must be subject to strict competition control. Strong employee
  rights and co-determination have to be ensured in all companies.
  
  
• For the right to useful work sufficient to provide a living, for full employment and for
  the redistribution of work through shorter working hours, instead of low-wage jobs,
  starvation wages and the replacement of regular contracts by temporary employment or
  fake self-employment. We hope that people in a self-determined manner can combine
  gainful employment, work in the family, the care for children, partners and friends and last
  but not least personal education and leisure.
  
  
• For a socio-ecological transformation towards sustainable resource-saving and
  environment-preserving modes of economy and life. We need regulated, selective growth
  on the basis of regenerative power sources.
  
  
• For a life in social security, for a sufficient basic income without sanctions, and for
  comprehensive protection against unfair dismissal. The Hartz IV laws must be scrapped,
  and nobody should be forced to accept employment disregarding his or her professional
  qualification or to work for a starvation wage.
  
  
• For adequate statutory retirement pensions for all gainfully employed persons, to be
  financed in parity by employees and employers, ensuring a decent living standard at old
  age and – unlike private insurance – not being subject to the vagaries of the financial
  markets. A society which condemns millions of elderly people to life in poverty is
  inhumane.
  
  
• For a solidarity-based state insurance for health and care to which all people
  contribute in accordance with their income and which in case of need covers all medical
  services and care. Medical services must not be subject to one’s private purse.
  
  
• For a secure, free education from nursery level on which is accessible to all and
  lays the foundation for a self-determined life in solidarity, for active participation in
  society and democratic engagement. We want an education system which unifies society
  through common learning, evens out disadvantages instead of increasing them and opens
  professional avenues and life prospects to everybody.
  
  
• For a just tax system, which unburdens small and medium earners while imposing
  higher taxes on the high income brackets, and which commits large properties,
  inheritance of large estates, capital revenues and corporation profits to financing
  commonwealth and the socio-economic transformation to a much higher degree. We want
  to redistribute incomes and properties from top to bottom and secure and improve the
  financing of public services.
  
  
• For peace and disarmament, against imperialism and war, for a world without
  weapons of mass destruction, for an immediate halt to all military engagements of the
  Bundeswehr, for a ban on armament exports, for civilian development support and an end
  to the economic exploitation of the Third World. War does not solve any problems but is
  always part of the problem.
  
  
• For a renewal of the European Union as a democratic, social and peaceful union, for
  high minimum standards of social and environmental protection, constantly adjusted
  across the continent, for business and wealth taxes, for a democratically controlled
  European Central Bank and a European economic government. A European Union geared
  to competition for locations, rivalry, and the dumping race discredits the European idea.
  
  
• For the implementation of democracy and constitutional legality, against the
  blackmailing power of large trusts; for a ban on business donations to political parties as
  proclaimed in France, for the incompatibility of political with economic mandates, for
  more direct democracy in the form of referenda, for the enforceability of legal rights
  irrespective of one’s income, for political strikes and general strikes as an employees’
  instrument of struggle, for the expansion of civil rights and the democratization of all
  spheres of society. Capitalism destroys democracy through its economic power. We,
  therefore, say: Democracy and freedom in a society of democratic socialism without
  exploitation and oppression.

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[M4nDr4k3]

It is good to see that someone out there is listening to the proposals that we are making in our America. The whole top part of this document sounds very much like what we are implementing in Venezuela and is kind of a recognition that we are in the right path.

The only thing that this group omits is the role of government in the management of income obtained form the exploitation of natural resources with which the American countries finance all the social programs geared to the welfare and education of the population. They skip that point and jump on to a European Union government issue.

I think that this document is a good beginning for a socialist oriented movement in Europe but there is still a lot that they must consider. I think that Socialism is not an Universal formula and every culture must develop it to suite their own needs as long as their formulas are based on the socialist principles of equality, democracy, solidarity and involvement by the people in the political and cultural change process. To create governments that are truly by the people and for the people.

Cheers
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¡Revolución!