You probably have not realised it but your thinking is 20 years out of date.

Who pays you to dissseminte this crap? I mean no sane person believes in it, not even you, I’m sure you will agree.

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Thank you Rory. Excellent response.

Real wealth stands on two pillars. Firstly individual enterprise which creates the goods and/or services that can be exchanged and secondly it requires a healthy community within which these goods and/or services can be exchanged.

Capitalism as a system rewards enterprise, vital and necessary, but overlooks the creation and maintenance of a healthy community within which exchanges can take place. The system operates on the baseless assumption of the continued existence of a healthy community in which to trade. It is baseless because all that one has to do is to visualise what will happen to the economic and social health of the world should all the monetary wealth be concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. That wealth will ultimately become worthless because there will be no one left with whom exchanges can be made. The capitalist system must be restructured in such a way as to automatically maintain the socioeconomic health of the community within which it exists.

Thank you, Reg. Nice and clear. Even a poorly educated person with a bad Matric mark should be able to understand it if he chews over it slowly with his morning All Bran. Problem is, he’s probably A-literate too.

10) Reduce violent crime in society. Research shows how violent crime was reduced in Washington DC (USA) by 23% almost immediately. “Social Indicators Research”, 47(2): 153-201. http://istpp.org/crime_prevention/

11) The massive overseas corporate land grab in Africa, China, South Korea must immediately be halted. “Corporate investors lead the rush for control over overseas farmland” http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=55

12) Food sovereignty for all, not just food security. “People’s Food Sovereignty Now! Declarations” http://peoplesforum2009.foodsovereignty.org/final_declarations

13) The rights of peasants, small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities must be guaranteed – See Via Campesina.

14) Biofuels from food crops or produced on land used for food must immediately be halted – http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/

15) Genetically modified (GM) crops must be immediately banned. They are harmful to human health and the environment, regularly produce lower yields and require higher herbicide use. [References can be supplied]

16) Sequester or remove 40% of the CO2 from the atmosphere through natural geo-engineering, ie. By converting the world’s 3,5 billion tillable acres currently under chemical industrial farming to organic agriculture. Read more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19229.cfm

Look forward to some healthy debate.

I think the debate must be much broarder than mere nationalisation, capitalism is in crises, I have posted this elsewhere and would appreciate comments:

1) Revamp our global financial system to avoid boom and bust – Keynesian Economics or similar system.

2) One economic model does not fit all. World Bank and IMF structural adjustment programmes a disaster in developing world. The solution: ‘Making Globalization Work’ by Prof Joseph Stiglitz.

3) Protect environment; rain forests, oceans, air.., everything, otherwise our civilisation will collapse.

4) Implement ‘Fair Trade’ as opposed to ‘Free Trade’ and allow developing countries to erect trade barriers where necessary.

5) Close the income gap between the superrich and very poor, otherwise we will have a revolution.

6) Every child around the world must receive consciousness based education so as to eliminate poverty and terrorism. – http://www.cbeprograms.org/

7) The whole world must more towards 100% renewable energy by 2050. If Germany can why not the rest of us?

Move towards Zerowaste. Recycle and re-use everything.

9) Cut back on meat eating. Meat eating is an inefficient way of converting the suns energy and other resources to food. Excessive meat eating increases disease in humans and exacerbates climate change.

To be continued….

Vavi le Liberte