Your comments are as far off topic to sust. ag. as talking about pasture
quality
when talking about raising quality meat. There's an intimate relation
there. You
can't have one without the other.
And we can't possibly hope to have a sustainable existence with systems
that
take advantage of some sectors of the community or world inhabitants, be
it
capitalism, socialism or WTO.
Maybe in our all out efforts to devour communism, we've succeeded in
devouring
ourselves. And maybe there is such a thing as instant karma, or we reap
what we
sow, or what goes around comes around...
Alex
P.S. I think your father-in-law had one of those moments of clarity
attributed
to prophets when the veil was pulled aside for a brief moment. We should
listen
to these people when this happens.
Mark wrote:
> At the risk of starting a thread many may claim as off-topic...here
goes.
>
> As I was watching the WTO protests with my wife and father-in-law last
week
> he turned to me and said, "They're protesting capitalism." This
simple
> statement sums it up. Globalization and the WTO are the natural
outcome of
> a system which exploits humans and the environment for the sake of
profit.
> Whether you are fighting the WTO on behalf of labor or the environment
you
> are ultimately fighting the system which is subjugating both to ensure
a
> steady flow of capital to the owning class.
>
> The president of the National Association of Manufacturers stated on
CNN
> that he is adamantly opposed to adding labor considerations to the WTO
> talks. He does not want to open that "basket of snakes." Speaking as
one
> snake to the rest of the basket, something must be done to ensure that
our
> interests are considered as important as all the widget makers out
there.
> And while some protesters took advantage of the chaos to do some
> vandalizing, the core message of the protests is certainly clear: we
don't
> all agree that this system is the best we can devise. But what now,
people?
>
> Mark
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