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Taverner

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5. That's why I think a decentralized socialism is the solution
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 06:28 PM
Sep 2013

Of course, what if one of the autonomous collectives becomes tyrannical?

There has to be a check and balance between the state and the collective - and this was what the US tried to do

Things didn't work out so well however...

I am more Anti-Capitalist than Marxist

I think he has some great ideas, but so does John Zerzan, Carl Sagan and the great European Socialist economists of the last turn of the century

There are a lot of good ideas out there, problem is the money isn't in them...

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