Vladimir Ilich Sawant and the New Seattle-ites at Work

North Carolina State exports the worst of its economics--Et tu, guys? And it's something old, nothing new, mostly borrowed, and will make you blue (if you live in the Pacific Northwest);

Seattle City Council member-elect Kshama Sawant told Boeing machinists her idea of a radical option, should their jobs be moved out of state. 

“The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing’s profit-making machine,” Sawant announced to a cheering crowd of union supporters in Seattle’s Westlake Park Monday night.

This week, Sawant became Seattle’s first elected Socialist council member. She ran on a platform of anti-capitalism, workers’ rights, and a $15 per-hour minimum wage for Seattle workers.

She's anti-capitalism, but says the workers need the capital.

“The only response we can have if Boeing executives do not agree to keep the plant here is for the machinists to say the machines are here, the workers are here, we will do the job, we don't need the executives. The executives don’t do the work, the machinists do,” she said.

But they did amass the capital that Sawant wants to take over. Wonder what would happen if she got her way; would anyone invest in a business in Seattle ever again?

Sawant says after workers “take-over” the Everett Boeing plant; they could build things everyone can use.

“We can re-tool the machines to produce mass transit like buses, instead of destructive, you know, war machines,” she told KIRO 7.

Or airliners that the world prizes enough to purchase, because they meet people's needs.