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> There is no simple formula to determine how limited energies should be distributed among these many tasks; all must be addressed if there is to be a chance of survival in a world in which a decent person would want to live.
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> opposition to slavery would have failed if no realistic alternative had been advanced: rental rather than ownership of labor, in our own history, not the end to which we should strive, but a major advance nonetheless. Determined opposition to the latest lunacies and atrocities must continue, for the sake of the victims as well as our own ultimate survival. But it should be understood as a poor substitute for a challenge to the deeper causes...
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> #ThomasFerguson observes that " The prerequisites for effective democracy are not really automatic voter registration or even Sunday voting, though these would help. Rather, deeper institutional forces—flourishing unions, readily accessible third parties, inexpensive media, and a thriving network of cooperatives and community organizations—are the real basis of effective democracy."
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#BasisForDemocracy

> We are fortunate to live in a society that is not only rich and powerful—and hence, as any student of history would expect, dangerous and destructive—but also relatively free and open, perhaps more so than any other, though this may change if the reactionary jingoists who have misappropriated the term “#conservative” succeed in their current project of diminishing civil liberties, strengthening the power of the state, and protecting it from public scrutiny.,,
#TurningTheTide (1985) -> 2025?