Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 09:24:30 -0000 (UTC), RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com>
wrote:

On 9 Jul 2024 at 05:04:24 BST, Bill Sloman wrote:
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From time to time I get to remind the qroup that
I'm a democratic socialist - while Communists are autocratic socialists,
and got slung out of the International Socialist movements in 1871, when
Karl Marx's silly ideas about "the leading role" of the party were rejected.
 

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Very kind of you! But a small point - the CP was, theoretically, a socialist
bridge to communism. Nobody - especially Marx - know what communism would be
in detail - simply that the process of revolutionary socialism would put an
end to capitalism for the right reasons.
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Mikhail Bakunin's famous quote dates from that period
 
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801264-if-you-took-the-most-ardent-revolutionary-vested-him-in

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So history might suggest :-)

In other words, power corrupts.

Which means that governments are dynamically unstable, and a
long-term-democratic society is a remarkable thing.

Why end "capitalism"? Economic and intellectual plualism works.