Let us speak with one voice.Let us reclaim our power of a Democratically governed Free people.
Example: They can't decide whether to ban land mines? Let us give them a global referendum of what we think.
When global, ballots can be conducted on any issue, no Government can legally refuse to implement a decision by some 90% of the people.
Hands up all those who Don't want their lives, homes and surroundings destroyed.
The real and ongoing policy decisions which must be made for a 20-50 year plan of planetary repair and peacefull coexistence must be formulated and debated now.
Let us make these the issues and not get sidetracked by the 4 yearly marketing tactics of every election.
For the first time, we can try democracy. Now everyone can deliver their vote on any issue at 186,000 miles a second.
Do we need a need a formula, a thoery, an ism?
Issues are many but solution is one
See how a microbe or a tree lives
see their cellular and forest worlds
then see how humanity must live.
we think we can deny our environment and needs and embrace some imagined 'fight...against nature...for survival...of the fittest'
oh, the eternal mysteries of life.
We live in hope.
: There are several case studies which support socialists' view that society can be
: organised for the needs of people rather than profits. Paris 1871, Russian 1917
: and Spain 1936 are not small case studies, but actually world-changing events.
: Marxism is, as I think you mean by "rule-based", theoretical. However it is not
: complex. Moreover it is not vulnerable to the "personality cult", because as
: Marxists would say, such a cult does not exist. Saying such a cult does exist
: is an example of what Marx would call idealist as opposed to materialist.
: Materialism attempts to explain people's ideas, actions and nature in totality,
: that is seeking to view them not as isolated and separate from the society that
: they live in.
: Society is not made up of "human sheep", the bewildered herd who need a little
: prodding here and there in order to keep them in line. Capitalism does require
: ardent supporters. Institutions such as the mass media, the law courts, the
: eductation system, the police etc. all operate in more or less unison, some more
: or less violently (the police) than others to gain the support which is needed
: to maintain the status quo. So there are significant barriers to people
: developing alternative views, but this is not to say that they don't or that
: they can't. An example would be a worker who is taught the view that the police
: exists to protect the safety of the public. When the demonstration/strike/picket
: line he/she attends is heavily policed and is prevented from having any meaningful
: impact on the political process - he/she may even if cop a beating if the demo
: becomes too unruly or riotous - he/she's view of an altruistic, independent and
: impartial police is likely to change.
: The first priority of any society ought to be meeting the needs of its participants.
: This means finding adequate food, shelter and harmonious conditions for all. In the
: short-term, the needs of the environment (the earth) must be subordinate. It would
: seem pointless everyone living in utter misery with a nice, stable and unaffected
: environment in the background. A combination in such form is unlikely, but
: illustrative nevertheless.
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