273. Granny’s Flag
for Alternative Revolution: Jobs for Life and Freedom in Community vs Salary Slavery for Crony Greedy Corporate-State
Grace Lee Boggs: 'We Are Shaking the
World With a New Dream'
While austerity-pushers press for
Detroit bankruptcy, Boggs says city "providing a model for change in the
world"
- Andrea Germanos, staff writer
เกรซ ลี บอกส์: ‘เรากำลังเขย่าโลกด้วยความฝันใหม่’
ในขณะที่พวกผลักดันนโยบายรัดเข็มขัดให้ดีทรอยต์ล้มละลาย,
บอกส์ กล่าวว่า เมืองนี้ “กำลังเสนอรูปแบบเพื่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงในโลก”
-แอนเดรีย
เยอร์มาโนส
ดรุณี ตันติวิรมานนท์ แปล
As Detroit faces
possible bankruptcy and more calls for safety-net shredding austerity,
98-year-old activist, author and visionary organizer Grace Lee Boggs offers a
powerful counter-narrative to the system that rewards banks
with bailouts and discards residents of the nation’s cities as victims of free
market ideology.
ในขณะที่ดีทรอยต์ อาจล้มละลายได้ และมีเสียงเรียกร้องให้ฉีกทึ้งร่างแหรองรับความปลอดภัย,
นักกิจกรรม อายุ ๙๘, นักเขียนและนักจัดกระบวนผู้มีวิสัยทัศน์ เกรซ ลี บอกซ์
ได้เสนอวาทกรรมตรงข้ามต่อระบบที่ให้รางวัลแก่ธนาคารด้วยการทุ่มเงินกู้ชีพ และ
ทอดทิ้งชาวเมืองผู้อาศัยในประเทศ ให้เป็นเหยื่อของอุดมการณ์ตลาดเสรี.
Speaking with PBS's Tavis Smiley, the six-decade Detroit resident said that the
poverty-stricken city was not a hopeless cause but a place that is
"providing a model for change in the world."
ในการพูดคุยกับ ทาวิส สไมลี แห่ง พีบีเอส, ชาวเมืองดีทรอยต์หกทศวรรษผู้นี้
กล่าวว่า เมืองที่ยากจนไม่ใช่เหตุผลของความสิ้นหวัง แต่เป็นที่ๆ
“จะให้รูปแบบเพื่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงในโลก”.
Grace
Lee Boggs speaking with Tavis Smiley. (Screengrab)
The vacant lots left by behind by
outsourced industry, seen by some as "the end of everything," also
brought opportunity, said Boggs, "opportunity to grow food for the
community and give city kids a different sense of time and change," and
the opportunity to create a healthier, more sustainable city.
บางคนเห็นว่า พื้นที่ว่างเปล่าที่ถูกปล่อยทิ้งไว้โดยอุตสาหกรรมใช้บริการจากนอกประเทศ
เป็น “จุดจบของทุกสิ่งทุกอย่าง”, ก็นำมาซึ่งโอกาสได้เช่นกัน, บอกส์ กล่าว,
“โอกาสที่จะปลูกอาหารสำหรับชุมชน และ ให้เด็กๆ ในเมืองมีสามัญสำนึกแบบอื่นเกี่ยวกับเวลาและการเปลี่ยนแปลง”,
และ เป็นโอกาสที่จะสร้างเมืองที่มีสุขภาพดีกว่าและยั่งยืนกว่า.
Even more, she said, "we're
creating a whole new society which is post-industrial. And that turning
point, the evolution of humanity, is a great privilege."
มากกว่านั้น, เธอกล่าวว่า,
“เรากำลังสร้างองค์รวมของสังคมใหม่หลังยุคอุตสาหกรรม. และ ณ จุดพลิกผันนั้น
เป็นอภิสิทธิ์ใหญ่หลวงสำหรับวิวัฒนาการของมนุษยชาติ”.
Boggs sees this turning point as
crucial, being "culturally as important as the transition from hunting and
gathering to agriculture and from agriculture to industry."
บอกส์มองว่า จุดพลิกผันนี้สำคัญยิ่ง, เพราะ
“มีความสำคัญเชิงวัฒนธรรมพอๆ กับการเปลี่ยนผ่านจากยุคล่าสัตว์และเก็บกิน
สู่ยุคเกษตร และ จากยุคเกษตรกรรมสู่ยุคอุตสาหกรรมทีเดียว”.
People are hungry for change, said
Boggs, and they know that "that there’s something unsustainable and really
invalid humanly about the way we’re living." People are "just
recognizing that all the contradictions of an industrial society are coming
home to roost and we have to create something new, and we are."
ประชาชนหิวโหยการเปลี่ยนแปลง, บอกส์ กล่าว, และพวกเขารู้ว่า
“มีบางอย่างที่ไม่ยั่งยืนและไม่ใช่เป็นอย่างที่มนุษย์ควรจะเป็นจริงๆ
ในวิถีชีวิตที่เรากำลังดำเนินอยู่”.
ประชาชน “เริ่มตระหนักว่า ความขัดแย้งในตัวเองทั้งหมดของระบบอุตสาหกรรม
กำลังกลับเข้ารังเพื่อขึ้นคอนนอน และ เราต้องสร้างบางอย่างใหม่ๆ
และเรากำลังทำเช่นนั้น”.
The re-think that has been catalyzed
delves deep into what economic crises really mean.
การคิดใหม่ที่ได้ถูกกระตุ้นขึ้น ดำดิ่งลึกลงไปในวิกฤตเศรษฐกิจว่า
แท้จริงแล้วมันหมายถึงอะไร.
And the crises won't be solved, as
the Detroit's emergency manager Kevyn Orr has attempted,
by privatizing or chopping public services, because, as Boggs said, they may
"have seemed like economic crises, but there are more crises of our
humanity," and therefore prompt questions like, "How do we think of
ourselves? What do we do? Are we just interested in jobs so that we can buy a
lot of goods and become materialists? Or are we living a life that violates
human values?"
และวิกฤตจะไม่ถูกแก้ไข, ดังที่
ผู้จัดการภาวะฉุกเฉินของดีทรอยต์ เควิน ออร์ ได้พยายามทำ, ด้วยการแปรรูปออกนอกระบบ
หรือ ตัดบริการสาธารณะ, เพราะ, ดังคำพูดของบอกส์, มันอาจ “ดูเหมือนวิกฤตเศรษฐกิจ,
แต่ในมนุษยชาติของเรา มีวิกฤตมากกว่านี้”, ดังนั้น คำถามอื่นๆ คือ
“เราคิดถึงตัวเราเองว่าเป็นอะไร อย่างไร?
เราทำอะไร? เราเพียงสนใจในงานจ้าง
เพื่อที่เราจะสามารถซื้อของมากมายได้ และ กลายเป็นนักวัตถุนิยมเช่นนั้นหรือ? หรือว่า เรากำลังมีชีวิตอยู่ในวิถีที่ละเมิดคุณค่าของมนุษย์?”
Detroit was an symbol of the mindset
that fostered the idea that "producing more, faster, even at the expense
of the human beings on the line, was progress." But the "dreams of
the 20th century are dead," said Boggs.
"And we are shaking the world
with a new dream."
ดีทรอยต์
เป็นสัญลักษณ์ของความยึดมั่นฝังหัวที่บ่มความคิดที่ว่า “การผลิตมากกว่า, เร็วกว่า,
แม้แต่ด้วยการสังเวยมนุษย์บนสายพาน, เป็นความก้าวหน้า”. แต่ “ความฝันของศตวรรษที่ ๒๐ ได้ตายไปแล้ว”,
บอกส์กล่าว. “และเรากำลังขย่มเขย่าโลกด้วยความฝันใหม่”.
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Bushrodl
I love Grace Lee Boggs. She's about
50 years ahead of everybody...but we'll get there because circumstances will
continue and necessity trumps.
The mind of Grace Lee Boggs is
amazing. It's not that we need to agree with what she says, but it is
instructive to see the way she thinks. I deeply feel that this woman has so
much to offer without claiming or even hinting that she has THE solution. After
debating whether I should post this really long excerpt from her book, "Conversations
in Maine: Exploring Our Nation's Future", co-authored along with her
husband James Boggs, Lyman Paine and Freddy Paine, I decided to do so, just to
give a glimpse into her mind, for those who may be curious. Or you can take 20
minutes to watch Grace Lee Boggs with Bill Moyers in 2007 (she was 91 years old then). This book was first
published in 1978:
Redefining Revolution
... The word "revolution"
is so tainted, so surcharged with past meanings that people respond
automatically. Everybody thinks he/she understands what a revolution is. Yet we
continue to use the word because one of the major responsibilities of a
revolutionist is to redefine
revolution, just as it is to redefine socialism. If somebody asks you if
you are a revolutionist, you can't just say "yes" because in a way
that capitulates to his or her definition of what a revolutionist is. A lot of
radicals say "yes" the same way that they would check the box on a
questionnaire on race, sex, or religion. You don't help the person who asked
the question by just checking the box. If you are on a platform and somebody
asks you this question, you say, "I am glad you asked me that question.
Let me explain why I say I am a revolutionist."
We must boldly redefine revolution.
Our job as people who are advancing the American revolution is to persuade
people that their psychic
hunger can be satisfied by doing things that are elevated. A
revolutionist is a person who is daring enough to believe that people can live differently. You
have to believe
that you are capable
of explaining the concepts
you believe in, knowing that other people have other and contradictory ideas about these same
things. Just as you can explain the difference between the Russian view of
socialism and the Chinese view, and the limitations and narrowness of the
former. A lot of people to this day believe that capitalism, socialism, etc.
are "things." They see relationships as things. Seeing relationships as things (reification) paralyzes them in their capacity to envisage new
relationships which they can participate in creating.
When people in their search for how to live better are
ready to make evolutionary changes by choice, then we will be able to have
revolution.
When people lived in tribes, they weren't lonely. But in
all the advanced countries of the world, we have arrived at a point where
practically everybody is lonely because they have been deprived of community. Much more in America
than anywhere else as illustrated in the murderous and extremely important
cartoons of Charles Hamilton in the New Yorker -- people feel dehumanized. But how do we
move from non-humanity to humanity?
Without
the sense of the need for community,
why should anyone have a
sense of the need for revolution, except abstractly?
We have to arrive at revolution, not
begin with it. The only reason one would ever want a revolution in this country
is because one wanted to
be one again with one's fellow human beings. When people want to live
differently from the way they are living now, then they will make revolution
and not before. Part of our job is to indicate that the passion and the
dedication which Guevara put into Bolivia was misplaced and we are trying to
discover the new place to put it.
We have to decide what we think in order to change what others think. To
make a revolution it is necessary to persuade some people who have some powers, some beliefs that
they would like to see extended. If they feel that way, they will make a change.
Yet some people still think that if you raise a red flag and support an
ideology which nobody but your followers understand, you will make a
revolution.
When Are People Free?
When is a human being free? Up to
now the individualistic concept of freedom has dominated the world. It has now
led to the concept of "doing you own thing". Therefore it is
necessary to create a new
concept of freedom at another,
deeper level. ...
You are unhappy because you are a prisoner of your life.
The only way to become happy is to become free. To become free you have to incorporate a whole lot of things into your thoughts
that you are not including now. For example, if you are going to talk about pollution, you may have to
incorporate into your thoughts the reduction of your standard of living. If you don't want Third
World peoples to insist upon their freedom to pollute the planet by rapid
industrialization, you may have to accept some responsibility for having gotten
there first and therefore you may have to stop something so that they may begin
something. If you can't think that way, then you are not free.
Psyches Don't Live on Bread
... We are not probing for answers
so much as we are trying to find the right questions. What is it that John D.
Rockefeller III (who wrote "The Second American Revolution") and Joe
Doakes who drives a bus both need? Suppose that instead of using a
phrase like "psychic
security," we used one like "living purposefully." But that implies that
you have already gone through the process of comparing values so that you have
decided for what purpose you are living. Whereas psychic insecurity is living without the faintest idea of why
you are living.
Psyches don't live on bread. It is
not a question of physical well-being. We are talking about the need of people for spiritual
relationships with themselves, with others, with their surroundings. You
can't tackle this by writing a Das Kapital. We need something else --
but what it is we don't know. It is not likely to be a book at all -- because books don't mobilize forces.
At most a book or manifesto can move only a few people.
How do we begin? One way is to try
to persuade people
to think about community.
How does one go about inspiring or persuading people to think about community?
We are beginning -- even though it may be twenty years before people can look
back and say that we made a beginning. Also the beginning never has an end. It has climaxes which lead to new
beginnings. A lot of people who follow Marx think that there is an end.
We believed that for years. Now we realize that one year, two years, twenty
years from now, we or others may discover another thought that it was
impossible for us to think about this summer. We accept the fact that there are mysteries which we have to
incorporate into what we
know now, always looking
for further illumination. We recognize that whatever concept we could
possibly evolve about a community,
having looked back
and tried to sum up
all that has been true of communities, would nevertheless only be a beginning of the struggle
to form something which has never
existed before. We would be scared of a blueprint if we came up
with one.
That emphasis of the last line was
mine. I think it is this kind of thinking and articulation that has resulted in
the sidelining of people like Grace Lee Boggs in the left ideological circles.
Whether one agrees with her or not, it should be noted that Grace Lee Boggs
doesn't just talk or write, but has been walking the talk.
revolution as a violent rupture from the status quo is easier to imagine in
terms of how it can be achieved however bloody and scary the process may be.
revolution as a long process of building small viable alternative communities (economies) within
or outside an extremely hostile dominant environment (the status quo economy)
is much harder to imagine in terms of how to get from here to there while
making a living.
when I spend most of my time watching and listening to
broadcast information and propaganda I tend to focus on the external things
that seem important. It's not until I take the time to reflect on what gives me
meaning and true happiness that I perceive
what Ms. Boggs is talking about. When we live with this awareness we will
choose to let go of our need for things and choose to honor our spiritual relationships with each other and the
earth.
Thanks so much for this.
Some people cite a quote about how
easy it is for people to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end
of capitalism. But I would say that there are also people who can imagine the
end of capitalism, but still cannot imagine the end of this industrial society.
The celebrated
"revolutions" of the 20th century and Marx himself never really
questioned the sustainability of industrial civilization, except making a few
remarks here and there. These remarks are painstakingly dug up by people like
John Bellamy Foster to construct a claim of "eco-socialism" as a serious component of
Marxist ideology. But ecological sustainability still ranks BELOW (far below, I
would say) any other considerations of economic and social equity. Even these
economic considerations, if extended to a global scale and subjected to
ecological constraints must point to a certain limit to consumption. Such limits are nowhere in
the mainstream of Marxist discourse.
The silence surrounding the work of
Grace Lee Boggs seems to be a result of ideological partisanship. I pointed
this out the last time around also: "Grace Lee Boggs: The Evolution of a Revolutionary".
Thank you for reminding people about
Grace Lee Boggs and her articulation of a 'New Dream'. People really need to
balance their sense of outrage
and anger with serious
action. And action must include protests, boycotts, shutting down AND
the building of alternatives, including, most importantly, sustainable food production.
It is amazing to see a 98-year old woman to be articulating this idea so
clearly.
Yes, sustainable food production
would require land reforms and more people returning to farming. But this
cannot happen as long as there is a huge demand for meat and dairy. People can start by removing this incentive to
hold on to humongous tracts of farms and ranches in the hands of a relatively
small number of people and corporations, sucking in all kinds of subsidies.
It's worth spending another 20
minutes to watch Grace Lee Boggs with Bill Moyers in 2007 (she was only 91 years old then!)
More On Grace Lee Boggs' view
The Next American Revolution
preface: these pages come from material I’ve been putting
together for a local discussion group. I apologize for taking up space but
would very much appreciate any comments
The Next American Revolution
Grace Lee Boggs,, Detroit-based radical organizer and philosopher. Born to Chinese immigrant parents in 1915 [in their apartment over the family’s restaurant], Now 98 she has been involved in nearly every major activist movement of the past eighty years, including labor, civil rights, black power, women’s rights, and environmental justice movements.
Grace Lee Boggs,, Detroit-based radical organizer and philosopher. Born to Chinese immigrant parents in 1915 [in their apartment over the family’s restaurant], Now 98 she has been involved in nearly every major activist movement of the past eighty years, including labor, civil rights, black power, women’s rights, and environmental justice movements.
She earned scholarships, graduated from Barnard, and went on to earn a
PhD in Philosophy at Bryn Mawr in 1940.. Facing the significant employment
barriers of the academic world as a woman of color in the 1940s, she found a
job at low wages at the University of Chicago Philosophy Library. And living in
a rat infested basement she began an activist’s career, which continues to
today, working for tenants' rights.
She successfully melded theoretical
studies of reform and revolution with on-the-picketline activism while
participating in in nearly every major activist movement of the era.
Along the way she met and married
Jimmy Boggs, a Black from the deep south who was for 30 years a union member
and organizer in the Chrysler factory in Detroit. Theoreticians as well as
activists, the two were deeply immersed in the passionate discussions about
revolutionary doctrine which characterized leftish organizations. [they found
the Communist/USSR perspectives badly flawed, inclining toward Johnsonite
anti-stalinist thinking.]
From all of this in time they
emerged with a radically different perspective: they saw that thinking about
revolution beginning with the Marx and the Russians had come to be centered on
a process of rousing the masses to take over existing systems at the top and
from there to rework the structure to be more supportive for the people
generally [according to whatever structure the proponents advocated].
They proposed to do something quite
different: not to change
the system or its details but to build the entire structure from the ground up.
They had come to share Luther King’s vision of the “beloved community;” they called on Detroiters to expand their humanity, working together to create a more humane, democratic, and meaningful way of life, not just in Detroit but in line with the thinking eg underlying the work of the World Social Forum on the theme “Another World Is Possible,” central to the Puerto Alegre forum of 1999 and to the participatory democracy of that city [and others, ...including some in the USA]].
They had come to share Luther King’s vision of the “beloved community;” they called on Detroiters to expand their humanity, working together to create a more humane, democratic, and meaningful way of life, not just in Detroit but in line with the thinking eg underlying the work of the World Social Forum on the theme “Another World Is Possible,” central to the Puerto Alegre forum of 1999 and to the participatory democracy of that city [and others, ...including some in the USA]].
And perhaps the most important thing
about this view imho is not just its thorough, careful exposition - though imo
this is indeed revolutionary - but that, having worked out the
theory and background, the Boggses and friends put it into action
...” we need to go beyond opposition, beyond rebellion, beyond resistance, beyond civic resurrection.
We don’t want to be like ‘them.’
We don’t want to become the ‘political class,’ to simply change presidents and switch governments.’
“We want and need to create the alternative world that is
now both possible and
necessary. We want and need to exercise power, not take it.”
She set forth these views in her
recent book: “The Next American Revolution.”
{Univ of California Press] [see also her autobiography ‘Living for change.” Grace Lee Boggs Univ of Minnesota Press]
{Univ of California Press] [see also her autobiography ‘Living for change.” Grace Lee Boggs Univ of Minnesota Press]
Beginning specifically and actively
along these lines in 1992; she, with Jimmy Boggs, Shea
Howell, and others, co-founded “Detroit Summer,” which intended to
"rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up,"
beginning by organizing youth.
=== ===
Detroit summer...Some specifics..
=== ===
Detroit summer...Some specifics..
Over time it has developed parallel
and interrelated activities loosely linked: Arts, Media, Culture; Community
Organizations; Education [Schools and Community]; peace zones[ restorative
justice]; Food Security - Urban Gardens and Farms; Local Businesses:
Sustainable Economics; Recycling; Youth & Activism.
.
Activities in general aim to strengthen the community as well as to overcome specific challenges..Murals turn depressing deteriorating walls into images celebrating a vibrant locality.
A Restorative justice movement replaces arrest and incarceration in cases of many crimes; keeping juveniles out of the criminal justice system and resolves conflicts in the community without the toxicity of revolving door criminal activity.
.
Activities in general aim to strengthen the community as well as to overcome specific challenges..Murals turn depressing deteriorating walls into images celebrating a vibrant locality.
A Restorative justice movement replaces arrest and incarceration in cases of many crimes; keeping juveniles out of the criminal justice system and resolves conflicts in the community without the toxicity of revolving door criminal activity.
Children are not locked into rows of
desks in sterile classrooms; reminded, under the evils of “teach to the tests”
of their own ineffectiveness; they are given activities and places in the
community where they can both learn and feel the satisfaction of knowing that their work has
value and that they themselves are productive parts of the community.
For instance, one group undertook to study their community to see where there were needs for improvement..In due course they identified youth obesity as a community problem...but they didn’t stop there, they went on to create vegetable gardens, some on rooftops, to improve sources of healthy foods...
For instance, one group undertook to study their community to see where there were needs for improvement..In due course they identified youth obesity as a community problem...but they didn’t stop there, they went on to create vegetable gardens, some on rooftops, to improve sources of healthy foods...
One of the tenets of the Boggs
respiriting’ of Detroit is: “Using new methods of local, small-scale production
(such as 3-D printing) to produce our own clothing, housing, transportation,
etc.” [to be continued...
[See GVCS, in the end notes]
3-D Printing
3-D printing technology makes it
possible for small shops, using 3-D printers [some of which are literally small
enough to fit on a desk-top], to produce a tremendous range of objects -
literally from jewelry and dental implants to museum-quality pieces to jet
engine parts to automobiles. [More information in notes below.] An active
community of users, designers and manufacturers has grown up along with these
developments.
But there is more at work here than just a new way of producing needed objects.
But there is more at work here than just a new way of producing needed objects.
A Revolution
We may be seeing here something like
the revival of the
craftsman, the apprentice,
the small workshop...of
“work” as opposed
to the slave-labor “job” of pointless repetitive mind-numbing --day after day
existence too often under the supervision of petty tyrants and at the mercy of
unseen financial interests. Now the craftsman will have the satisfaction of
seeing his skills successfully deployed and will enjoy his work...==?,
We may be seeing the end of the
assembly-line factories typical of the 20th century.
Major infrastructure systems will
likely continue in place – e.g. transportation systems, water and waste
disposal systems, the electric power net [though as solar energy designs evolve
this net may fade] and co-op structures may replace privately owned
configurations
And this leads on to A major theme in the ongoing work in Detroit; the evolution of the ‘beloved community’ sketched out by MLK. With people engaged in ‘Work;’ not regimented in ‘Jobs;’ with communities oriented to neighborhoods not projects, humanizing schooling, building community oriented restorative justice... finding their ways to provide the supporting services.. will approach a version of King’s vision..
And this leads on to A major theme in the ongoing work in Detroit; the evolution of the ‘beloved community’ sketched out by MLK. With people engaged in ‘Work;’ not regimented in ‘Jobs;’ with communities oriented to neighborhoods not projects, humanizing schooling, building community oriented restorative justice... finding their ways to provide the supporting services.. will approach a version of King’s vision..
Notes on the technology and
development of 3-D printing
“3-D technology” is an outgrowth of
the work on automatic computer-controlled milling machines which have long been
standard in industry.
3-D printers, like the computer printers in common use everywhere, are controlled by software. There are software languages - comparable e.g. to word-processors for authors - to facilitate the translation of a designer’s vision, of an object to be produced, into code which will control the machine.
3-D printers, like the computer printers in common use everywhere, are controlled by software. There are software languages - comparable e.g. to word-processors for authors - to facilitate the translation of a designer’s vision, of an object to be produced, into code which will control the machine.
3-D printers are conceptually
similar to everyday computer printers. The conventional printer lays out
patterns of ink on paper in accord with instructions received by the printer’s
software from the author’s computer, forming complete 2-D pages of printed text
and graphics as needed.
3-D printing can be thought of as
producing objects by printing successive cross-sections of the object – e.g.
from the bottom up - in successive superimposed layers until the desired 3-D
object is complete.
3-D printers can work with a broad
range of materials, from plastics through chocolate even to binding material
for construction of buildings using sandstone.
Some are not only small enough for
small shops; they can fit even tight budgets. Currently 3-D printers can be had
at prices from $400 to $25,000 [and up for speialized designs].
Examples
Examples
1. “Replication Revolution: Best
3D-Printed Objects in Entertainment, Science and War:” An unprecedented
improvement in a jet engine design; a ‘printed’ eagle’s beak, made to repair an
injury; printed-plastic acoustic guitars; 3-D versions of Escher’s drawings;
repair modules for damaged coral reef structure; sculptures; jewelry; ... a
plastic handgun...
http://www.wired.com/design/20...
http://www.wired.com/design/20...
2. “A small brass horse about 75 mm
high.” A museum reproduction
http://www.thingiverse.com/thi...
This is one of 30,000 designs from a community of afficionados...
http://www.thingiverse.com/dev...
http://www.thingiverse.com/thi...
This is one of 30,000 designs from a community of afficionados...
http://www.thingiverse.com/dev...
3. “How to 3-D Print the Skeleton of
a Living Animal,...the skeleton above was created by taking a CT scan of an
anesthetized rat and sending the data to a 3-D printer...“
http://www.wired.com/wiredscie...
http://www.wired.com/wiredscie...
4. “The New MakerBot Replicator
Might Just Change Your World.” A good introduction to the subject with
information on a leading machine.
http://www.wired.com/design/20...
5. “3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production,”
www.wired.com/autopia/2013/02/...
http://www.wired.com/design/20...
5. “3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production,”
www.wired.com/autopia/2013/02/...
6. And variants can create even
larger objects - e.g., complete buildings. “‘D-Shape’ is a new robotic system
using new materials to create superior stone-like structures ...full-size
sandstone buildings made without human intervention,...”
http://www.d-shape.com/cose.ht...
7. Wikipedia has a concise discussion of the software and file systems involved in the control of 3-D printers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3...
Some Comments
http://www.d-shape.com/cose.ht...
7. Wikipedia has a concise discussion of the software and file systems involved in the control of 3-D printers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3...
Some Comments
The Economist of London
“Three-dimensional printing makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to produce thousands and thus undermines economies of scale. It may have as profound an impact on the world as the coming of the factory did....Just as nobody could have predicted the impact of the steam engine in 1750—or the printing press in 1450, or the transistor in 1950—it is impossible to foresee the long-term impact of 3D printing. But the technology is coming, and it is likely to disrupt every field it touches.”
“Three-dimensional printing makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to produce thousands and thus undermines economies of scale. It may have as profound an impact on the world as the coming of the factory did....Just as nobody could have predicted the impact of the steam engine in 1750—or the printing press in 1450, or the transistor in 1950—it is impossible to foresee the long-term impact of 3D printing. But the technology is coming, and it is likely to disrupt every field it touches.”
The Motley Fool
“Thanks to 3-D printing, China may be out of a job. Who needs to buy cheap manufactured goods from Asia when you can print out anything you want from your home 3-D printer – a factory in a box?
“Thanks to 3-D printing, China may be out of a job. Who needs to buy cheap manufactured goods from Asia when you can print out anything you want from your home 3-D printer – a factory in a box?
“Amazon may go the way of Netflix.
Who needs to order goods for delivery (or DVDs), when you can just have the
blueprints (or digital files) sent to your computer at home?” Or at your local
print shop...
The Global Village Construction Set [GVCS]
The basic concept here began with
the conceptualization, design and construction of a small farm machine,
intended to be built one by one by individuals as each needed one for their own
situations. The first was built by its designer for $6000; a conventional
machine of comparable capabilities was priced at about $35,000. And the
originator, working largely alone, built a second one in six days...
There is an organization growing up,
evolving from this work: the Open Source Ecology organization. It aims to
complete in due course the “Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)” -- a set of
modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance machines allowing for the easy
fabrication of 50 different industrial machines, from soil pulverizers to
ovens, that would suffice to build full-fledged small, sustainable
civilization...
GVCS
Global Village Construction Set.
Open Source Ecology organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
This has garnered attention broadly e.g., from Time Magazine, the TED program, etc.
Open Source Ecology organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
This has garnered attention broadly e.g., from Time Magazine, the TED program, etc.
From Time Inc - “Best Inventions of
the Year 2012"
The Civilization Starter Kit
http://techland.time.com/2012/...
The Civilization Starter Kit
http://techland.time.com/2012/...
The founder and builder of the first
machine is Marcin Jakubowski:
“Open-sourced blueprints for civilization,”
http://www.ted.com/talks/marci...
“Open-sourced blueprints for civilization,”
http://www.ted.com/talks/marci...
World's First 3D-Printed House:
Innovative, Disruptive & Downright Terrifying”
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/...
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/...
Can we create the machines of modern
life sustainably, cheaply, and close to home?
http://www.yesmagazine.org/pla...
A baker’s oven, a backhoe, a well drilling rig. According to social entrepreneur Marcin Jakubowski, these are a few of the 50 machines essential for any society to sustain a modern, comfortable lifestyle.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/pla...
A baker’s oven, a backhoe, a well drilling rig. According to social entrepreneur Marcin Jakubowski, these are a few of the 50 machines essential for any society to sustain a modern, comfortable lifestyle.
But these machines are not only
essential, explains Leifur Thor, they’re also expensive, hard to repair and
designed to be obsolete in a few years. Thor volunteers with Open Source Ecology, a
non-profit Jakubowski founded to develop the Global Village Construction Set. The set will
comprise durable, modular machines that people can build and maintain themselves with
sustainable, locally available materials—often scrap metal. OSE will give the
plans away to anyone who wants them. The money a farmer would have sent to a
large corporation to buy a hay cutter will stay in the community. The
environmental impact of shipping heavy equipment long distances will disappear.
These machines are designed to cost roughly a fifth of what factory-produced
models do.
Thanks, parrysixte, for a great post. I hope more people
would have a chance to read your post. What the 'Boggses and friends' started
doing and what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. talked about regarding community
have a bit of a historical parallel with Gandhi's frequent articulation of 'village-level self sufficiency / self-rule', although in
those days when there was so much fervor and excitement about 'modernization'
and industrialization, his calls were mostly ignored.
I am yet to read up and make up my mind on 3-D printers. But
believe it or not, I have thought almost exactly along the lines of the 'Open Ecology' project
some years ago. I just worried that some big corporations may steal even from
this kind of work to make a profit elsewhere, and tweak things just a little
bit and even patent the designs! So I did not explore the idea further. I now
think that some legalese can be included as an integral part to prevent that.
Personally, I think that such activities as are being done
or encouraged by Grace Lee Boggs must be in addition to all other actions --
from the individual to the collective
level, and can nicely complement all those actions. Most of all, these would empower people in a new
way and prepare the ground
for a new society. And they may have a MUCH greater value in places like
Detroit.
Growing food is critical. I am convinced that large numbers of people switching
to a vegan diet will make the transition to a sustainable society that much
faster. This would also make land reforms more likely, by removing the
incentive to hold large farms and ranches. Some of it may be diverted for
biofuel production, but sooner or later, things will have to start changing,
and the move towards smaller farms should commence. But it won't happen as long
as there is a large demand for meat and dairy, not just in the USA, but
worldwide. If local demand
shrinks, producers can still export meat and animal feed. So this will have to
be a global movement.
But if the Amazon forests are to be saved and further destruction for the
purpose of grazing livestock and growing soy are to stop, it still needs to be
a global movement.
I still think that certain massive protests would be needed
to shut down certain destructive things. But people can pull the plug on many
of them by simply boycotting certain things. Large numbers would be needed for
boycotts to have an effect. But large numbers are going to be needed ANYWAY to
bring about change quickly. So people should be out there, talking to lots more
people.
Thanks again for the post, even though the thread has become
somewhat quiet.
thanks for responding...
The opensystems organization story is interesting...I think
you may have been on a fruitful track...You could probably join them. if still
interested ..
I've been interested in the idea of a boycott, too, but have no idea how they are organized...another idea, ...boycott work...down tools; go out for coffee...stay home...no mobs for police to harass.
I've been interested in the idea of a boycott, too, but have no idea how they are organized...another idea, ...boycott work...down tools; go out for coffee...stay home...no mobs for police to harass.
The kind of boycotts I have in mind are mostly motivated by
environmental and climate change concerns. And the outrageous development of adding to
the electricity generation capacity
in the form of renewable energy systems as well as NEW coal and natural gas
power plants, as late as 2012, with more NG power plants in the pipeline. What
I mean is that renewable energy systems should NOT become additional
capacity, but should be replacing existing fossil fuel-based
power generation capacity -- especially in the developed countries. So the only
way that a major switch to a renewable energy system would be possible in the
near term is by massively reducing demand for electricity.
So people must start scouting for large consumers of electricity that serve no ESSENTIAL purpose. (Sorry about the caps! :)
Example: corporate, commercial sporting events (that involve not just
electricity use at the venues, but for the TVs and for all the things that go
with watching these events), and enormous amounts of air travel by the teams. Then there are the amusement parks, 'The Strip' at Las
Vegas, and all kinds of monstrous waste of electricity all over the world.
Then there are the 'optional' items such as escalators that
run non-stop, over-cooling, over-lighting and over-heating of places like the
shopping malls, rows of freezers left open at the supermarkets for the "convenience" of shoppers
(because glass doors tend to fog up momentarily after opening and closing), and
so on. If people look with a critical eye, there is waste all around. Ordinary people may not
be able to shut them down.
Here is where boycotts come in. Such boycotts would
necessarily involve reaching to fellow-citizens. There is no other way to stop
such waste, short of going in and shutting them down. It doesn't have to stop
with boycotts alone. People can support various pricing mechanisms (such as feed-in tariff,
progressively increasing price on electricity beyond certain levels of
consumption), carbon tax (as part of a fee-and-dividend system), etc., and most
importantly, support an international treaty to limit carbon emissions. While
individuals may not
be able to do much, they can support political parties or candidates who clearly articulate what
needs to be done -- such as the Green Party. Any and every action -- that is
what is needed. Ideology-based smugness has no place here!
People can take a serious, hard look at regular vacationing
that involves huge energy and resource use. Yes, this would be mostly people in
the top 20% of the population (or even top 10%), but they need to be appealed
to, and brought on the side of change as well. Tourism operations also have
implications on jobs, but that should not be used as an excuse for ongoing
waste and destruction.
If people are really serious about a non-violent transformation and urgently,
then more options for action would emerge that we may have overlooked until
now. A comprehensive change in the system can take place when there is a sufficiently large number of people ready to
bring it about, but not before.
I realize I haven't talked about any specific action, but
that is because it would depend on where people live, what their particular focus is (for example, I
personally think about food production, energy use and carbon emissions
mostly), their existing circle of contacts, their readiness to talk with
strangers, and so on. And then certain things can be achieved only by
collective action. So basically people need to be working at all levels, keeping
their eyes open for more opportunities for action.
It is important to watch out against ideologically-motivated snide attacks such as this one
elsewhere on this thread:
"A sustainable and fair society brought about by
organic farming in the empty lots of wasteland Detroit? Maybe we should return
to hunter-gathering while we're at it."
We need an excise tax on energy--start at 10% 1st year, 20%
2nd year, 30% 3rd year, 40% 4th year, 50% 5th year and hold--as much for
prohibitive tariff effect as for revenue to pay for both renewable energy
equipment and improvements in energy efficiency. Wind, solar, and geothermal
all seem to be sustainable energy sources; utility scale batteries and pump
storage and smart grid electronics improve efficiency by enabling electric
utilities to better match supply and demand in real time. Petroleum needs to be
replaced by the algal bio-diesel US Navy funds Algae Systems R&D on. I fear
for our farms--can our crops take the heat? We can desalinate sea water--at
greater cost than our farmers are willing to pay for irrigation water. Maybe
let household use get first shot at desalinated sea water--then Algae Systems
uses that municipal waste water to feed algae along with CO2 captured by Global
Thermostat and gets bio-diesel, bio-char, 600F water (run steam turbine first
then potable once it cools enough to drink), salt and fertilizer.
Your suggestion about "an excise tax on energy" is
exactly on the right track. Other people have proposed something similar, and
some with an even better arrangement, IMO: where the tax thus collected is
actually returned to the public. Those who would use less energy would get more money back. James Hansesn has long
advocated this kind of a carbon tax, as part of a fee-and-dividend'
system. The expectation is that this would spur the development and spread of
renewable energy systems by the right kind of a market signal and market
pressure.
However, I strongly feel that along with any such
arrangement, there HAS TO BE an upper limit on carbon emissions, globally and nationally,
enforced as part of a global climate treaty. Otherwise I am afraid that the
pace of transition is not guaranteed and is vulnerable to manipulations.
There is now a "Citizens Climate Lobby". People
should consider joining up with these folks or similar advocacy groups. CCL is also demanding a 'fee-and-dividend' system:
A fee and dividend effectively taxes carbon emissions,
collects and divides up that revenue, and gives 100% of it back to all citizens
equally. Most people get the same or more money back as dividends than they'd
pay in higher energy prices, but they'd make even more money by using less
fossil fuel energy.
CCL advocates for the fee and dividend approach for two main
reasons.
First, it's probably the simplest option. The carbon fee
would be implemented at the point of entry (well, mine, or port), and we
already have a system in place to return the dividend to citizens during annual
tax filings.
Second, it's probably the most feasible option to implement,
from a practical and political standpoint. The dividend offsets the cost of the
carbon fee for most people, so there is minimal financial impact on citizens.
However, since we would know about the carbon fee and that
it will continue to rise, people would have an incentive to transition away
from high-emissions products to minimize their costs and potentially make money
from the carbon fee and dividend system.
As for water desalination, my thinking is that people should first ELIMINATE wastage of water.
In particular, the production of meat and dairy
that requires huge amounts
of water, especially water from the Ogallala Aquifer (including the production
of corn, soy and hay). Even in California, the largest acreage AND the largest
water use among crops is for growing alfalfa, mostly to feed dairy cattle. Then
there are the lawns
- which can be converted to gardens to grow food. There are the golf courses.
There are all kinds of water wastage. Eliminating these could make the need for
water desalination unnecessary in many places.
My thinking is that dedicating the tax revenue to a
combination of buying fossil fuel as it is displaced by renewable energy both
to placate the fossil fuel firms (hopefully cutting down on corruption) and to
keep he fossil fuel firms from selling the fossil fuel to China, India, etc.
AND buying renewable energy equipment to give to utilities to persuade them to
go ahead and use it is likely to keep the transition from fossil fuel to
renewable energy and efficiency going. Europe has already had a lot of trouble
with corruption of their cap and trade system--how do you force the lowering of
the cap each year with all polluters demanding that they get to keep their
permits grandfathered. Maybe water needs to be taxed too, with the cost of
desalinating seawater putting a limit on how high the tax can go and revenue
dedicating to cleaning up dirty fresh water and desalinating sea water when we
run short of cleanable dirty fresh water.
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Excellent..I'm with you....reducing demand could be key in
many ways.
BTW, i'm no technophile, but research on solar cells is
looking hopeful
But reducing demand...YES
Any clues to how boycotts are built?
We need excise
taxes on many things--as much for the prohibitive tariff effect as for
the revenue. The fat cat capitalist ruling class will manage to grab at least
90% of the revenue--but even 10% of the revenue could be some help in
supporting the 99%. I strongly suspect that there is some level of modest
comfort such that it would be cheaper to support the least fortunate members of
our society at that level in supportive housing with communal dining included
than to leave them at loose ends. Now if only the 1% could be convinced that it
really is cheaper to support the bottom 20% at such a level than to neglect
them.
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I don't know if there are any contemporary examples I can
offer for boycotts that would be relevant for taking action on global warming.
Historically, there have been boycotts organized by people like Gandhi. But the context was somewhat
different. But it is important to understand the linkage of what we are boycotting to the bigger picture, and pick items to boycott that
would have the greatest
impact. As an example, I have cited Phil Rockstroh's facebook post before.
But I do think that this would involve appealing to a sense
of morality in the
relatively affluent
population. And where possible, showing some alternatives available. Or,
organize events, fairs, etc., centered around these alternatives, and emphasize
the urgent need to switch.
Those who are not affluent or those who are already not
consuming wasteful products (that could be physical products such as meat, or
"cultural" products such as entertainment, corporate sporting events)
would have to take the risk of talking to strangers, handing out information
regarding the wasteful and destructive nature of certain kinds of consumption,
etc. They basically need to become activists and proselytizers in their
everyday life. And find ways to publicize their efforts, so other people in
other locations who may be thinking along similar lines may get inspired to
act.
Speaking of proselytizing, it requires a somewhat thick skin
to face rejection (and being chased away by mall security :). Maybe doing it in
small groups, wearing T-shirts with a message, etc., can give the initial
momentum and allow a gradual easing into organizing.
Ultimately, this should be about change towards something
better. Ecological sustainability and a life that is not so wasteful,
with less stress, more healthy and with more time to spend with family, friends
and community should be "better" -- so it's best to remember that we
are indeed working for something better and not just against
something destructive. We should also leave some room for people on the
"other side" to switch sides without being terribly offended and
without losing face. Otherwise it would only provoke an ego-based reaction in
them. Sorry, again, no specifics. But when the issue has little do with
people's discretionary consumption or addiction, but only with a destructive
industry or corporation, no such niceties are necessary. :)
Ok, I'm with you on these aspects..In veterans for Peace
we've encountered much of this
It's the next level I'm puzzled about...How build a boycott
movement...I can faintly see some elements but not how an overall structure for
planning and action can evolve and E.g. how can participants rank prospective
targets, settle on timescale of actions et
once the private profit as the
driving force is removed from industrialization, environmental sustainability
will be welcome in its place. just and peaceful society doesn't have to be a
stone age.
i don't know what you refer to as
the "mainstream marxism", but nowhere did marx preach maximum (but
equal amongst the members) consumption as the goal of communism or socialism.
perhaps you are referring to the
american style trade unionism as the "mainstream marxism" but marx
himself bluntly said he wasn't marxist if trade unionism was marxist.
I said, "mainstream Marxist discourse" -- such as
their publications and lectures. I don't think this is a point of debate at
all! Most of their focus is on class issues and critiquing the capitalist
system. Any limited reference to environmental sustainability is somewhat
cursory, despite the effort of some people to work it into the general ideology
in a somewhat contrived manner.
There is an implicit BELIEF that just getting rid of
capitalism would somehow automatically produce an environmentally sustainable
society, without explicitly making it a priority. I am saying that
environmental sustainability should rank right at the top -- something that the
"mainstream Marxist discourse" does NOT do!
Some of the ideologues are too caught up in a particular way
of looking at things. Being limited in their ideological framework is not a bad
thing in itself - it can be rectified by learning from other approaches and new
information. But the problem comes when some people actively attack certain
other approaches that are NOT even contrary in terms of the end goal that's
articulated. They are very divisive
in this respect, because they alienate people because of their arrogant posturing, without actually producing
any improvement on the ground. When some of these Marxist ideologues do that,
they positively start to look like religious fanatics. They seem more
interested in their particular ideology "triumphing". Even more than genuinely moving towards a
sustainable and equitable society by adopting multiple approaches! They seem to
want a revolution (as per THEIR idea) or NOTHING!
All serious people must seriously and honestly answer this
question: what is it that they TRULY want? A sustainable
and fair society brought by about any non-violent approach or multiple,
complementary approaches -- OR
-- to prove that
some particular ideology is superior to others?
A sustainable and fair society brought about by organic
farming in the empty lots of wasteland Detroit? Maybe we should return to
hunter-gathering while we're at it.
Marx was quite clear that ending capitalism was not going to
"automatically" do anything. Rather, it would open the road for free
human beings globally to consciously direct the evolved scientific and tecnological
capabilities of the human race to produce what was needed (think solar panels,
mass transit, accessible low-cost institutions of higher education, etc.) to
sustain the human race in harmony with the planet as a whole.
Here's some "mainstream Marxist discourse" that
might be of some interest:
Time to choose. Do we continue to
wring our hands, blaming everyone but ourselves, or do we dig in and create new
society and new structures?
For this website: Is it going to be
"Common Dreams" or "Common Nightmares"?
Will the people of Detroit be allowed to create a new
society? Not with Snyder's bankruptcy plans. The whole city will be sold off to
a bunch of 1%ers who don't even live remotely close to Detroit.
DEE-troit will soon be invaded by carpetbaggers.
Oh, the irony.
the strategy is, not participating in the old game and creating a just and
peaceful way of living, in every possible way and with everyone doing whatever
they can. we may want to live in a smaller and more environmentally sustainable
house with a lot more people than a typical nuclear family, with simpler and
less food, and no fancy anything else, but we have to want to live like that,
instead of taking it as some sacrifice.
At one point, the Occupy movement (maybe Occupy Wall Street)
bought a bunch of those securitized debts to forgive the debts. Helpful, but
they could not continue to do so because the value of the remaining securitized
debt rose with the hopes of the present holders that they could recover more of
what they had paid for that debt.
thanks for this posting, Common
Dreams is awesome - and so is Grace. We made a film about her vision for
Detroit and the people who are making it real, called WE ARE NOT GHOSTS that
will be aired on Free Speech TV later this year, and you can preview it here - https://vimeo.com/39355493
Grace Lee Boggs has talked the talk
and walked the walk in all her work. She is amazing and a treasure.
Wow, this is just what I've been
thinking. This would be a great opportunity to implement Town Dollars, like the Fourth
Corner Exchange and the Time Banking system. Go Detroit!
Wanted to quickly share news on the
new documentary that will air on PBS in 2014, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE
EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS. Short Synopsis: In an age when seemingly
insurmountable injustices and contradictions
face us, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY inspires concerned citizens and dreamers of all ages with new thinking to sustain their struggle and engagement.
face us, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY inspires concerned citizens and dreamers of all ages with new thinking to sustain their struggle and engagement.
All the wisdom the world needs is in
the "crones" whom Grace embodies. We fail to listen at our peril.
The social and economic
contradictions are greatly the problem. These social contradictions are shaping
humanity and its social identity. The social identity being shaped by worldwide
corporate owners for benefit of owners will continue the status quo as one of
control, fear, illusion of prosperity, liberty, freedom and change while the
reality is the world owners are monopolizing all world resources, markets,
monopolizing controls on price, movement, sales, production, resources, travel,
liberty and freedom of choice. This all done in the name of progress or efficient markets. The truth however
is the worlds corporate owners opinions become the laws of the world all others
must live by. The increasing controls
of the monopolizing corporate states worldwide must be broken for any
real social change. This includes the monopoly on capital for investments and
corporate laws modified worldwide enforced for socially responsible service to humanity not as
today where costs are not captured in price to increase owners profits and other crony capitalist scams which serve nothing but transfers of wealth and income from
others. Others what others there is only the all. Corporate and owners attachment to profit, wealth, power and
control is destroying
the earth, markets
and humanity as always its first the children, old, disabled and starving that
first feel the pain because they are mostly not owners seeking profit, wealth,
power or control they just want
to live but not
just exist till not for the greed of the owners at the top. Change will
not come until the owners of the world are restrained or eliminated by social pressure from the
massive population they depend on for all.
Humanity can govern itself without kings, queens or corporate power elite
controlling markets, education, resources and virtually all potential within
the social crony market
system of capital slavery by capital, resources, and market
monopolization consolidation leading toward total corporate control Humans were not born to serve
the corporation state
or nation but to be able live with liberty, freedom of choice so one can seek
or just be for everything that is really good for all in life and reject all
that's not.
The world is consumed with the crony capitalist greed
incorporated and exported worldwide its the NEW RELIGION promoted by corporate
owners of all capital and markets.
When do you think the masses of Americans will rise up and
get into the streets to change the system?
When the cost is seen to exceed the benefit of playing the
current rigged game then the public will begin to protest. This is not likely
in USA because the public is pacified, mediatized, uneducated, medicated and
individually identify with the corporate state, religion dogma or the
propaganda of the day. The USA
system encourages individualization
over the identification with the one and the ALL. USA encourages the I, ME, Mine ego state of
mind and dismisses or demonizes
the social identification
with the world. The citizens of USA think the corporation is the provider of jobs, wealth, and contentment etc. But this
is just not so. The corporation is the organization of capital, resources,
labor, production etc. toward a goal the owners profit nothing more. Reject privatization
without social voice for the betterment of the needs of all.
Sure, I can feel the tremors all the
way from here.
But, seriously, when there's nothing
else left, we have to make ourselves believe that we're shaking the world with
our new dream. In the meantime, the uber-corporations shake the world with
fracking and bombs. Oh, well, no one said this would be a perfect world after
all.
YES, THE CORPORATE CONSOLADATION AND CONTROL IS NOT THE
SOLUTION BUT THE PROBLEM. How is it the corporations who destroyed the economy by profit considerations
regardless of human need are seen to be
the new savior of the
bankrupt. Because the corporations have rigged the game for the owners control.
Reject all privatization without strong anti-trust law and the means to enforce it. However not likely because the corporate owners own government, justice system and the world mostly with total control near complete.
Reject all privatization without strong anti-trust law and the means to enforce it. However not likely because the corporate owners own government, justice system and the world mostly with total control near complete.
With all due respect, GLB's kind of talk only helps support
the status quo:
''. . . not to worry, everything will turn out all right because the common folk of Detroit will show the way -- yes, and defeat the corporate masters
-- even if the game is rigged against them.''
-- even if the game is rigged against them.''
NOT
The only real tactic that will work is if a few million folk occupy the streets of DC, and put the
fear of people-power into the heats & minds of our knucklehead,
1-percenter, politicians.
with fear in their heart, what do you want and expect them
to do?
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