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Democrats!

Here is the program of a sane Democratic movement. Revolutionary because anti-dogmatic and anti-demagogical; strongly innovative because anti-prejudicial. We place the valorization of revolutionary war above everything and everyone. The other problems: bureaucratic, administrative, legal, educational, colonial, etc., we will chart when we have created the ruling class.

For this WE WANT:

On the political problem:

• Universal suffrage by regional list voting, with proportional representation, voting and eligibility for women.
• Minimum age for voters lowered to 18; minimum age for deputies lowered to 25.
• The abolition of the Senate.
• The convening of a National Assembly for the duration of three years, whose first task is to establish the form of the state constitution.
• The formation of National Technical Councils of labor, industry, transportation, social hygiene, communications, etc., elected by the professional or trade communities, with legislative powers, and the right to elect a General Commissioner with ministerial powers.

On the social problem:

WE WANT:

• The prompt enactment of a state law enshrining the legal eight-hour workday for all jobs.
• Minimum wages.
• The participation of workers' representatives in the technical operation of industry.
• The entrusting to the proletarian organizations themselves (who are morally and technically worthy) of the management of public industries or services.
• The speedy and complete settlement of the railroad workers and all transportation industries.
• A necessary amendment of the Disability and Old Age Insurance Bill by lowering the age limit, currently proposed at 65, to 55.

On the military issue:

WE WANT:

• The establishment of a national militia with brief educational services and exclusively defensive duty.
• The nationalization of all arms and explosives factories.
• A national foreign policy intended to enhance, in the peaceful competitions of civilization, the Italian nation in the world.

On the financial problem:

WE WANT:

• A strong extraordinary tax on capital of a progressive nature, having the form of true PARTIAL EXPROPRIATION of all wealth.
• The seizure of all property of religious congregations and the abolition of all diocesan benefices, which constitute a huge liability for the nation and a privilege of the few.
• The revision of all war supply contracts and the seizure of 85 percent of war profits.

I must drive myself insane by reading him to better understand Marx and dialectics

Would the Soviet Union still be around today?