Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On 9/07/2024 11:52 pm, john larkin wrote:

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
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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.

Some governments are dynamically unstable. Proportional representation (in places like Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands) seems to lead to multi-party  democracy, and coalition governments. This leads to incremental change and much more stable administration.
Australia settled for a single transferable vote and single member constituencies in the lower house, and it doesn't work as well.

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

Nobody wants to end capitalism - but everybody recognises the need to regulate it. America - with it's anti-trust legislation - was the first to recognise the necessity, but it failed to take it anything like far enough. Others have done better.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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