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On 30 Jan 2003 14:31:41 -0800, [email protected] (pal) wrote:
>Adam- Are you riding for a team sponsored by an on-line gambling company? If you are opening fire
>on the MIC, why not also open fire on capitalism and have your sponsor give money to the homeless,
>who you support via cycling, that might have lost their money gambling.
Jesus christ.
Hold on.......
I'm for socialism. I think that ownership of the tremendous productive wealth built up by hundreds
of millions of workers can't remain in the hands of a privileged few.
The capitalist profit system is unplanned and irrational. It's wrecking the world. Improved
technology brings layoffs and poverty, not comfort and lighter work. Booms lead to busts.
The competition for markets produces devastating wars and environmental destruction. Fabulous wealth
alongside deep poverty poisons all human relations, stimulating racism and other blame-the-victim
ideologies.
I know that nothing is secure--not our jobs, our homes, our health care, our pensions, our civil
rights and liberties--as long as capitalism exists. My goal is a society run by the workers, not
just as pawns in a capitalist political game but as collective owners of the social wealth.
This is not a new idea. Karl Marx put socialist ideology on a scientific footing a century and a
half ago. The last hundred years have seen many revolutions--and counter-revolutions--all over the
world. I try to learn from the successes and .the setbacks.
Whew.....now I _really_ feel like a rbr'er!!!!
Scott Johnson "There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking
children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their
week's exercise."
- John F. Kennedy, 1962
>Adam- Are you riding for a team sponsored by an on-line gambling company? If you are opening fire
>on the MIC, why not also open fire on capitalism and have your sponsor give money to the homeless,
>who you support via cycling, that might have lost their money gambling.
Jesus christ.
Hold on.......
I'm for socialism. I think that ownership of the tremendous productive wealth built up by hundreds
of millions of workers can't remain in the hands of a privileged few.
The capitalist profit system is unplanned and irrational. It's wrecking the world. Improved
technology brings layoffs and poverty, not comfort and lighter work. Booms lead to busts.
The competition for markets produces devastating wars and environmental destruction. Fabulous wealth
alongside deep poverty poisons all human relations, stimulating racism and other blame-the-victim
ideologies.
I know that nothing is secure--not our jobs, our homes, our health care, our pensions, our civil
rights and liberties--as long as capitalism exists. My goal is a society run by the workers, not
just as pawns in a capitalist political game but as collective owners of the social wealth.
This is not a new idea. Karl Marx put socialist ideology on a scientific footing a century and a
half ago. The last hundred years have seen many revolutions--and counter-revolutions--all over the
world. I try to learn from the successes and .the setbacks.
Whew.....now I _really_ feel like a rbr'er!!!!
Scott Johnson "There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking
children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their
week's exercise."
- John F. Kennedy, 1962
