If you wanted an example of how the UK is becoming more like the USA look at the roads.... the appalling state of many roads in the USA partly prompted John Kenneth Galbraith's observation some 50 years ago that the US combined public squalor with private affluence.
Given the concentration of wealth in the UK & the ever growing problem of potholes in roads, a similar observation would seem (and has seemed for some time) apposite for the UK.
@Herefordrob @ChrisMayLA6 This is a very good interview. Some takeaway ideas that resonated with me:
"If you want people to get fed, then you are a revolutionary because the logic of profit will never bring you there."
Value defined in terms of food security, not an abstraction like money.
Participatory funding decisions by local councils. The workers decide what programs their taxes fund.
Local-->National-->Global
Revolution = Change
Agree completely. Change cannot come from the top down when the top has been captured by lobbyists and foreign investment.
@Herefordrob @ReggieHere @ChrisMayLA6 To support Reg's point, regulatory change is still a top-down option. Dr. Mattei's statement that the crippling of critical thinking by academia funded only to make fodder for the oligarchs' money-mills is a better place to start.
A well-educated public is the last thing the powerful want. Frederick Douglass noted education makes man unfit for slavery. And economic slavery is what capitalism is.
Agree with this, and the federation of centralised power is essential for removing established points of political and academic corruption.
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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