Showing posts with label communism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communism. Show all posts

27/03/2007

A German library user makes an important observation on the failure of socialism. She remarked that communism (to which I was declaring continued, indeed sole, allegiance) is certainly an ideology free of socialism's unfortunate relations with the state and all the problems that brings, but that as communism is an ideology of angels it's not a lot of use to us in achieving the Good.

It's the delivery system that's failed in the technological and economic circumstances of today, but condemning socialism because it cannot live up to the ideology that has given it it's moral imprimatur and and has been used by some to justify degraded policies and acts, is escapism into angelic spheres that can deliver nothing (other than making me feel good).

Ouch!

So how is a delivery system developed and controlled by all of us? Perhaps first, what could it be made-up of ?