Funny how the party that doesn't think the Greek people should endure ......

[Ghost Dog]

52. Centralised top-down bolshevik-style single-party-led communism

just will not fly in Spain, in W. Europe generally. Spanish culture appears to be quite naturally anarcho-sindicalist and rule-breaking, on 'left' and 'right'. 'Capitalism' on an individual and small-business scale has always been a part of the human condition, it seems, and just feels 'natural' (even or perhaps especially when it has to resort to 'black markets'), as does a fairly high degree of 'individual freedom'. And we just, from experience, cannot trust the motives of those who would be willing to assume so much centralised power, from the 'left' or from the 'right'.

The problem with Capitalism, it seems, is a matter of scale, when certain elements grow to be so overwhelmingly powerful and so deeply corrupt and corrupting..

I'm one who so far emphasises the 'reform' part of the possible agenda... Where we call for a serious 'audit' of national debts, for example, we intend to identify the corrupt and the amounts of money they claim is 'public' debt but which in fact, on investigation, will turn out to involve fraudulent activity with amounts of money ending up in the pockets of the corrupt in positions of power and their cronies... such hypothetical balance-sheet entries will be frozen while the associated cases pass through the judicial system, probably very slowly. Where it turns out that only a few corrupt individuals are responsible for that part of the debt they, and not the public, will be accountable, and should be obliged to pay back what was stolen...