Here I am, outside a museum to a great Welshman, someone who stands as a figure for what we should all hope to be. He was a great man who introduced outstanding ideas for how society can work for the betterment of everyone, and I am proud to call him a hero of mine. He stood for what is right in building the co-operative moment with his care for how factories can work for people, instead of profit. These are ideas we should still hold in our hearts, as we look for how we as a society can create a better world for our children, as we focus on how the community is there to come together to help one another and can play a role in each other's lives. He championed the Governmentβs role in educating our future generations and providing free education to children.
These are the very same principles that I had in mind when I wrote the manifesto I stand on for you, and I hope you can support when you go to the polls on Friday. They are principles that put mental health at the forefront of our healthcare services and education institutions as we recognise the need for this across society. There is a focus on how education can prepare children for the future, including the proven benefits that come from bilingual schools, as we create a world beating education system in Wales. I hope to see every child leave school with a solid education, and a solid ability to speak Welsh and English. We owe it to our future generations to implement these reforms now, so we can allow Wales to thrive.
I want to follow in the footsteps of Robert Owen and put the community at the centre of social programmes, from education to health to agriculture to justice. Only the community knows what is best for the community in certain areas, and this changes from community to community, which is why we will be putting more power into the hands of local councils and local authorities to do what is right by the people they work for, as I hope to do right by you, the people I work for!! I want introduce justice programmes that put the community at the centre of them, to act with preventative force, rather than reacting to crime.
I stand here in a rural heartland of Wales, asking you to give me the responsibility to deliver rural agricultural policy, including Buy Local programmes to promote the purchase of Welsh produce to people across Wales especially local communities and unite rural and urban communities in supporting Wales and Welsh farmers together. It is a simple plan, but one that i
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Work to live, don't live to work. It's sickening how much of our lives are spent earning dimes a day while corporations make thousands - millions a day. America's work culture is disgusting and disgraceful. Especially when folks who work DOUBLE the 40 hour work week often barely make enough to get by. And all it takes is one bad medical aliment to completely destroy your finical stability for the rest of your life.
I'm not a religious man, but these Big pharma conglomerates, politicians and modern day slave driving corporations, truly deserve to be in the deepest most sadistic pits of hell.
Anyone have some great reading or video resources to learn more about the life and ideas of Robert Owen? I was reading Engelsβ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific and Owen is briefly discussed. Engels says that New Lanark is βdevoid of crime, police, drunkennessβ etc. due to the excellent living and working conditions of the factory and town. However, Owensβ Wikipedia page says almost verbatim the opposite, and calls New Lanark a complete failure. Now obviously I trust Engels far more than Wikipedia, but I want to learn more about this man. Any good suggestions?
> [..] as superintendent of more than 500 men [..] From 1800 to 1829, he directed the great cotton mill [..] a population that gradually grew to 2,500, he turned into a model colony, in which drunkenness, police, magistrates, lawsuits, poor laws, charity, were unknown. And all this simply by placing the people in conditions worthy of human beings [..] his competitors worked their people 13 or 14 hours a day, in New Lanark the working-day was only 10 and a half hours [..] When a crisis in cotton stopped work for four months, his workers received their full wages all the time. And with all this the business more than doubled in value [..] In spite of all this, Owen was not content. The existence which he secured for his workers was, in his eyes, still far from being worthy of human beings. "The people were slaves at my mercy." [..] As long as he was simply a philanthropist, he was rewarded with nothing but wealth, applause, honor, and glory. He was the most popular man in Europe. Not only men of his own class, but statesmen and princes listened to him approvingly. But when he came out with his Communist theories that was quite another thing [..] But nothing of this prevented him from attacking them without fear of consequences, and what he had foreseen happened. Banished from official society, with a conspiracy of silence against him in the press, ruined by his unsuccessful Communist experiments in America, in which he sacrificed all his fortune, he turned directly to the working-class and continued working in their midst for 30 years. Every social movement, every real advance in England on behalf of the workers links itself on to the name of Robert Owen. He forced through [..] the first law limiting the hours of labor of women and children in factories [..] introduced as transition measures to the complete communistic organization of society, on the one hand, cooperative societies for retail trade and production. These have since that time, at least, given practical proof that the merchant and the manufacturer are socially quite unnecessary
