The empowerment might be done by the government, but not through the government. What is direly needed is workplace democracy and ownership ; the general "sovietic" ideal of local democracy in the workplace.

It seems this ideal of workplace democracy is completely abandoned by the left. But what democracy do we have when the place where we spend most of our waking, productive place is clearly dictatorial?

That is why labor's right is one of the most important.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères