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As the smoke cleared, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>
mounted the barricade and roared out:

> ". . . Everywhere there were obsolete organisations seizing upon all the new
> fine things that science was giving to the world, nationalities, all sorts
> of political bodies, the churches and sects, proprietorship, seizing upon
> those treat powers and limitless possibilities and turning them to evil
> uses. And they would not suffer open speech, they would not permit of
> education, they would let no one be educated to the needs of the new
> time.... You who are younger cannot imagine the mixture of desperate hope
> and protesting despair in which we who could believe in the possibilities of
> science lived in those years before atomic energy came....

For this, Wells could be labelled "communist" -- as would anybody advocating, 
or even
simply predicting, major social upheaval such as this. Which would include the
inhabitants of Vortexia as well, BTW... However, Wells' actual Fabian roots 
show thru
in his "The Shape of Things to Come". Especially in the movie version (not his 
fault,
wot).


- -- grok.









- -- 
Build the North America-wide General Strike.

TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas.
TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes.
ALL power to the councils and communes.
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