Re: [Peace-discuss] The Revolutionary Communist Party says…

[C. G. Estabrook]

"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. 
If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to 
change things, there's a chance for you to contribute to making a better world. 
That's your choice."  --Noam Chomsky


John W. wrote:
> 
> ... The generic, unspecified "revolution" as the solution to all the
> enumerated ills of the capitalist system - which the Communists/Socialists
> always do a pretty good job of enumerating. *yawn*  Been there, tried to do
> that.
> 
> In my dotage I disagree most profoundly with this statement by Chairman Bob:
> "What has proven to be possible—and what has proven NOT to be possible—has
> nothing to do with "human nature" or "personal responsibility"...and
> everything to do with the system that was put in place to ensure "the dreams
> of our founders."  I now know most assuredly and emphatically that there IS
> such a thing as "human nature", which goes a very long way toward determining
> the types of self-seeking "systems" we humans put in place and have ALWAYS
> put in place.  Unless "human nature" is understood and taken into account,
> there is absolutely no possibility that human society can ever improve.  Our
> Founders tried to take human nature into account with their system of checks
> and balances, but of course they did it in such a way as to leave many 
> loopholes in which they could protect their own privileged status.
> 
> JBW