Re: That Russell Brand's interview . . . . .
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Originally Posted by Rollo
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Originally Posted by Starter
While we seem to agree on the importance of expressing, through ballots, one's views, I don't think a socialist revolution would be a good thing. Quite the contrary. Though the truth is that a socialist "creep", as opposed to a revolution, has been going on for some time.
I just don't see the evidence of socialist "creep" either in the UK or Australia.
In the UK, British Airways, British Petroleum, British Aerospace, British Gas, British Steel, British Rail, the Austin Rover Group, Rolls-Royce, Sealink, the electricity boards, regional water authorities, the Post Office, council houses...
In AUstralia, the Commonwealth Bank, Qantas, Telstra, CSL, the Federal Airports Corporation, Commonwealth Oil Refineries, the various states electricity and water companies, the Government Insurance Office, all of the state owned banks, all rail freight services in Australia and public transport in Melbourne...
All of this proves otherwise.
Government privatisation and pulling out of the provision of services by definition is the exact opposite of socialist "creep".
But there they go again, interjecting actual real life examples and expecting people to fall for it.
Why confuse issues with facts? :crazy:
What is accomplished? Many people want to believe in all sorts of things including all powerful workings of secret cabals "running the world" with machine like efficiency and diabolical power..and it seems that the smaller their own significance is, and the less their world experience and knowledge is, the stronger their beliefs in the secret shadow organisations.
Everybody has a right to their own opinion.
We are all created equal.
Therefore by rigid logic, all opinions are equal... :D
How can you "prove" that all those privarisations aren't just ploys or the wiley Socialists aren't doing that as "agents provocateurs" to bring about the collapse of the Capitalist system from which they will rise up from the ashes and take over? :erm:
