Well you ought to tell him that Marx invisioned a society where one could hunt in the morning and fish in the afternoon. Thanks to coal fired power plants in the southwest that pump mercury into the rain clouds and re-deposit the noxious shit in Rocky Mountain lakes and streams, you can't even safely eat the trout fished out of those lakes and streams.
Sheldon
also allowed that maybe him expecting 300
> million of the rest of us to subsidize the livelihoods of 240,000
> United Mine Workers at the expense of our personal health was a little
> unreasonable. Finally, I stated that, as much as his particular
> grouplet blathers on incessantly about democracy, there's nothing
> particularly democratic about allowing a number that small to
> unilaterally make decisions affecting the well-being of so many. And
> for this I was called a bourgeois wanker, a crypto-Thatcherite goon,
> and an agent of the forces of reaction!
>
> What is it with these types, anyway? I'm weak on Trotsky, but did he
> ever say anything so silly as that all decisions concerning a
> particular industry should be made exclusively by workers within that
> industry? Or was this merely one Trotskyite's vulgar rendition?
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure
> mægen lytlað."
>
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