Communist and socialist activists push 20-hour workweek and property seizures
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Updated · Fox News · May 8
Communist and socialist activists push 20-hour workweek and property seizures
8 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 8
At a May Day protest in Minneapolis, activists from the Revolutionary Communists of America and Freedom Road Socialist Organization also backed rent caps and confiscating billionaires’ wealth.
Interviewed demonstrators said factories, mines and businesses should be placed under worker control, with expropriated wealth funding healthcare, education and housing without reducing pay.
The activists appeared within a broader immigrant-rights march led by MIRAC, reflecting a wider trend of far-left groups operating alongside mainstream liberal protest movements.
Beyond state control, what alternative economic models challenge both capitalism and traditional socialism?
Could a 20-hour workweek be the new standard, and what would it take to implement it nationwide?
When can private property be legally seized, and how is the Supreme Court redefining 'just compensation'?