Strange Famous

such institutions as the lottery will not exist in a communist society, nor will "money".

In a perfect society, people will contribute what they can, and they will receive what they need. People play the lotto today to escape from the alienation of labour and the misery of capiatlist exploitation... in a communist society where labour is not alienated, such desires will not exist.

The abolition of capitalistic exploitation seeks to free all people from misery. The "Lotto" gives each person only a million to one dream that they make escape... we aim to free all people, not to offer dreams that somehow make the misery of capitlaistic conditions tolerable (or offset this misery long enough to survive).

Lets gets to fundamentals, and I wil answer several posts in one, rather than reply to everyone. What I am saying is very simple

I believe that people do not need to be motivated to work hard and excel by the prospect or personal gain. I believe that people who exist in a true community, and who have free and truly democratic lives will be motivated. I have a belief in human nature that it is possible for humans to be good. I do not believe that only selfish self interest can motivate innovation and hard work.

I believe that a society where all people are stakeholders, and where everyone has a say, creates harder workers than a society of exploitation, alienation, misery.

How many people do YOU know who like their jobs. All people dream of becoming an expoiter, or better to find scope in the margins... but teh majority are exploited... I am aiming for the freedom of everyone, not just teh prospect of freedom for the strongest. I believe people are good, or possible of goodness, community, decency... that people are not selfish and only self interested.

I look at the world today. Bill Gates has assets in the billions. People are starving to death in Sudan. Any system that allows this has failed. Even in America, which is the most powerful and richest society in the capitalist world, this system is failing. While some are so rich they cannot spend the money they have, while we live in a society where rap singers spend millions ona fleet of cars,,, people in America are dying on the streets. This is a society whose failure is ultimate in its weakness, that is so pathetic, so puny, so abhorent, that it cannot even protect some of its people from death by poverty, while others have billions and ultimnate power. This is a society that cannot HELP but continue to damage the physical environment again and again and again, because it cannot HELP but be driven by profit.

Capitalish has failed, and has proved to any reasonable person to be hopelessly inadequate as a means of government. Capitalism certainl;y will cause a general collapse of society wiuthing 10 years in the West. Either the people will rebuild society on a socialist basis, or sieze control via a revolution before this state, or humanity will not be existing in its present form. This is the simple truth. Anyone who is 20 today will not live in a capitalist society when they are 45.

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The Gospel of Thomas