Mister Dave Chesham whichfinder, Will you please explain yourself before you leave? You have quoted me. What did I say that brought you to your conclusion? Am...
... Holland is a 'Champagne Socialist' no doubt about that. How anyone can call another a "numskull" when I have never read anything of any value from...
This is a point I have been trying to get people to understand since the 90's ... -- This is a global chat group email for the user, all chat groups are ...
Anyone who knows me well, knows I love George Bernard Shaw, love to read him and love to quote him whenever possible. Like James Baldwin, he is an ever-present...
"India will be more successful in the long run" I have never been to China but have you ever been to India!! alan johnstone ... From: D Recent Activity: Visit...
... Francois Hollande is not any kind of Socialist: he's just another capitalist politician, no different in any important way from Sarkozy, Merkel, Cameron,...
... For a Socialist view of Shaw, see: http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2000/no-1156-december-2000/50-years-ago-gb-shaw-few-notes ...
No. Do you think those who went to Northern Ireland in the early 1970s thereby understood things there back then way better than they might have from London? ...
Harry Young had actually been to Russia, though, hadn't he, as a member of the YCL. Certainly you can accumulate knowledge from study, i be the last to deny...
... The point being made by myself is, the fact that most 'Socialist' can be called Champagne Socialist, because you have to be wealthy to be a Socialist,...
And another point, agricultural land is more expensive in India than in the UK. The Indians that moved to Africa decades ago did all right. Maybe more should...
I guess you are right Paul. Even statistically it would be unlikely since there are so few socialists. What are we going to do to change this statistic? My...
Thanks for sharing this, Paul. Reading that "eulogy" I'd have expected it to have come from someone more contemporary to today and less familiar with Shaw, not...
I would have thought that Portugal was too warm for you if the UK is, Bob. Yes, Alan, Harry Young had been to the USSR but that is not why he joined the...
... When we in the World Socialist Movement talk about Socialists and Socialism, we are using these words in a specific sense - you have surely been on this...
Shaw might have grasped in in his William Morris days but Wicksteed knocked it out of him in the 1880s. ________________________________ From: Robert...
"Life without Money" book launch http://www.lifewithoutmoney.info/ Derek Wall (Green Party) in conversation with editor Anitra Nelson and contributor Adam...
David, I have invited you to an IM (instant Message) (chat) to discuss such things but you only engaged long enough to disagree with the chat facility. You do...
In my vision for the future there will be a mixture of social anarchy/socialism and individual anarchy. The socialist zones will be money free zones and most...
Right Bob. I erred there. Alan could be right that the potential may be wasted again but I tend to think not in the next 30 or 40 years owing to some...
On an island [unless it is the size of Britain or Australia: a village economy size island will not vitally need money but it will be way worse off without...
... anarchist zones'? In the Socialist zones, anyone who wanted to start making things (eg hand-crafted furniture) would be able to do so, without having to...
My guess is that in the individual anarchist zones people would get a free basic minimum income which could be supplimented by wages. But you make a good...