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The goal of Velvetine Socialism is to establish a comfortable {{wp|standard of living}} for the worker within a market economy before transitioning to socialism. [[Francisco Carvalho]] summarised the application of this goal in a 2001 speech entitled "The Legacy of the Velvet Revolution and its Ideological Impact": | The goal of Velvetine Socialism is to establish a comfortable {{wp|standard of living}} for the worker within a market economy before transitioning to socialism. [[Francisco Carvalho]] summarised the application of this goal in a 2001 speech entitled "The Legacy of the Velvet Revolution and its Ideological Impact": | ||
{{quote|A socialist revolution can never be successful if a worker's standards of living aren't risen to levels suitable for comfortable living. Going straight to socialism head-first, while admirable, makes accumulating the needed resources to ensure a rising standard of living more difficult. Hence, the best way to raise a worker's standard of living is to do so before making the transition to socialism, by doing so within a market economy, albeit with strong governmental input to make sure that things run smoothly. Some radicals might call me a revisionist or a traitor to the revolution, but I stand here today affirming my commitment to the ideals of socialism, and more specifically Marxism.}} | {{quote|A socialist revolution can never be successful if a worker's standards of living aren't risen to levels suitable for comfortable living. Going straight to socialism head-first, while admirable, makes accumulating the needed resources to ensure a rising standard of living more difficult. Hence, the best way to raise a worker's standard of living is to do so before making the transition to socialism, by doing so within a market economy, albeit with strong governmental input to make sure that things run smoothly. Some radicals might call me a revisionist or a traitor to the revolution, but I stand here today affirming my commitment to the ideals of socialism, and more specifically Marxism.}} | ||
===Dirigism=== | |||
{{wp|Dirigism}} (''Dirigismo'') is a core principle of Velvetine Socialism. Velvetine Socialism stresses the importance of heavy economic involvement from the state, asserting that only the state can effectively plan out an economy as a means to curb production inefficiencies and {{wp|market failures}} instead of just allowing the market to do as it pleases with these issues, or even just having the state play a merely {{wp|regulation|regulatory}} role. It is the opposite of ''{{wp|laissez-faire}}'', instead making use of top-down {{wp|indicative planning}}, state-directed investments, and even taxes and subsidies to urge and incentivise market entities to fulfill economic objectives as planned out by the state. It is, however, not a pure {{wp|planned economy}} for the market-based allocation of production and investment has yet to be replaced with a binding plan of production expressed in units of physical economies. "{{wp|National champions}}", large industry groups back by the state, is another main aspect of dirigism where the state encourages the mergers and formations of such groups. | |||
The two sectors in which the Rumahokian state seeks greater control over are in {{wp|infrastructure}} and the transportation system. Currently, the Rumahokian state owns the national railway company [[SIRF]], the national electricity utility [[CRE]], the national airline [[Rumair]]; [[Blue Telecom Group|phone]] and [[Red Mail Group|postal]] services are operated as subsidiaries of [[RumaTel]]. Other areas of great importance to the Rumahokian government are the defence and nuclear power industries. However, the construction of most {{wp|motorways}} were delegated to semi-private companies rather than being handled by the government itself. | |||
Ambitious state plans are a common trend as a result of dirigism, with the most successful examples being the extensive use of {{wp|nuclear energy}} (close to 95% of Rumahokian electrical consumption is by nuclear power), the continuation and upgrading of the [[Videocom|Televideo]] service (now Videocom), an online system for the masses that makes use of either phone lines or the Internet, and the [[TAV]], a {{wp|high-speed rail}} network. | |||
===Tripartism=== | |||
==International outreach== | ==International outreach== | ||