Red Youth (Norway)
Far-left Norwegian political youth organization
Red Youth (Bokmål: Rød Ungdom; Nynorsk: Raud Ungdom; abbr. RU) is a Norwegian youth organisation. It is the youth wing of the Red Party, which was formed from a merger of the Red Electoral Alliance and the Workers' Communist Party in March 2007.
Politics
Red Youth defines itself as a Marxist, Feminist, Anti-racist, revolutionary organization that organizes young people to fight for a socialist democracy where the working class controls society. In order to prevent socialism from developing into a dictatorship, Red Youth believes that society must constantly develop in the direction of a classless society; Communism.
Economically, Red Youth favors a planned economy, which according to them will mean that the economy will be subject to democracy.
Red Youth believes that capitalism is primarily responsible for oppression, class divisions, and hunger. According to RU, a market economy leads to a situation where a minority gains the right to own society's most important resources, resulting in private profit being prioritized over human needs. They argue that the exclusion of the economy from democratic control means that important decisions in economic policy are left to the market rather than to elected representatives. Red Youth believes that a capitalist society leads to a situation where the ballot must yield to money, and democracy gives way to plutocracy.
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