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Kshama Sawant was just elected to her third term on the Seattle City Council. Here is the Wikipedia section about her economic policy: > Sawant has advocated
by haberman 7y ago
Kshama Sawant was just elected to her third term on the Seattle City Council. Here is the Wikipedia section about her economic policy:
> Sawant has advocated the nationalization of large Washington State corporations such as Boeing, Microsoft, and Amazon[62] and expressed a desire to see privately owned housing in "Millionaire's Row" in the Capitol Hill neighborhood turned into publicly owned shared housing complex saying, "When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn't be privately owned."[63] During an election victory rally for her City Council campaign, Sawant criticized Boeing for saying it would move jobs out of state if it could not get wage concessions and tax breaks. She called this "economic terrorism" and said in several speeches that if Boeing moved jobs out of state, the workers should take over Boeing facilities and bring them into public ownership. She has said they could be converted into multiple uses, such as production for mass transit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshama_Sawant#Economic_policies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshama_Sawant#Economic_policie...
- twic 7y agoThose nationalisations are like things that Labour governments in the UK actually did in the '40s through '70s. At the leftmost edge of the mainstream, sure, but hardly far left.
- haberman 7y agoHow many of those nationalizations involved the workers "taking over the factories"? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/seattle-councilwoman-urges-boeing-workers-take-over-the-factories-end-profits https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/seattle-councilwoman-urge...