V. ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMICS, TAX REFORM

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V. ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMICS, TAX REFORM
The North Carolina Green Party seeks to build an alternative economic model that rejects the capitalist system that maintains private ownership over almost all production.

We also reject any state system that assumes control over industries without democratic and worker-based decision-making.

We believe the dying model of capitalism (private ownership of production) is not ecologically sound, socially just, or democratic.

We also stand against bureaucratically owned or heavily hierarchically ruled systems as well as against any economic model that contains built-in structures that advance injustice.

Instead we will build an economy based on large-scale green public works, local people's assemblies, and workplace and community democracy.
Some may call this "ecological socialism."

Whatever the terminology, we believe that only an end to capitalist modes of production and ownership, an ecological-socialist economy, will help end labor exploitation, environmental exploitation, racial, gender, and wealth inequality and bring about economic and social justice due to the positive effects of democratic decision-making.
Production is best for people and planet when democratically owned and operated by those who do the work and those most affected by production decisions.

This model of worker and community empowerment will ensure that decisions that greatly affect our lives are made in the interests of our communities, not at the whim of CEOs and distant boards of directors.

Democratic, diverse "cooperative" ownership of production would decentralize power in the workplace, which would in turn decentralize economic power more broadly.
The NCGP views the economy as a part of the ecosystem, not as an isolated subset in which nothing but resources come in and products and waste go out.

Democratically run enterprises, when embedded in and accountable to our communities, will make more ecologically sound decisions in materials sourcing, waste disposal, recycling, reuse, and more.