I am at odds with the last comments by Tony Mockeridge and the aggressive
manner in which he has singled out one individuals faults for all the
trouble with prejudice and racism in this country. It would however be more
effective to actually look at the political and value systems beliefs of
those people who call them selves liberals and how that much power and
capitalist control over so many years by western domination can lead to so
much disfranchising and disempowering and marginilsation firstly of black
people and people of different ethnicity, women at large and people with
any kind of disability.
Liberal right wing philosophy is centered around the individual without
respect of the community at large or the different groups in society,
liberal people think only with their greed for wealth and how to make a fast
buck of someone else and often at someone else's demise.
Liberally minded people think that everyone should look out for themselves
and have no one to blame for the way they but themselves.
As a mature age student I'm learning at present about the four types of
capitalism.
a/ Financial - money wealth
b/ Physical - power - institution, large hospitals , multinational
skyscraper type minds
c/ Human - how many people are employed or unemployed
d/ Social - what people put into a society without earning income, i.e.
volunteer efforts, organising change, based on personal ideology with others
that sort of thing.
Well guess what Liberals only concern themselves with the first three.
China would concern itself first and foremost with the last.
Russia seems to have lost power because it forgot about social capital and
spent more time on the others.
A socialist or person believing in positive outcomes for all people would
believe in ensuring the rights of people are first and foremost in peoples
eyes. A socialist ideal would consider how to bring about equality for all
of its society and not just the fortunate 10% of this country.
A socialist view would consider the rights of the first people to own this
land and be recognised as the owners throughout the world.
A socialist would publicise the fact that all people who have arrived in the
last 211 years are immigrants, a socialist would recognise English
domination over the Irish as this country developed.
A socialist person would recognise a person right to protest and demand
change.
A socialist person would recognise that in order to have equality in society
that others have to be less equal. (less equality for men greater
opportunity for women, less employment for white Australians greater
employment for black Australians.)
A socialist person would recognise that change for society comes from within
the community and not from dominant wealthy people.
A socialist would recognise the need for consultation and effective
negotiation with positive outcomes.
A socialist would recognise the need for radical confrontation if peoples
needs are not being met.
Regards,
Lance.
White hetero-Anglo-Saxon English/Irish ancestry single-older male catholic
with a willingness and want for society to change, who grew up looking for a
cause in all the wrong places.
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