Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On 9 Jul 2024 at 05:04:24 BST, Bill Sloman wrote:

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.
 

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.

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

So history might suggest :-)
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Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK