Marie Antoinette famously recommended cake to her fellow citizens because she, too, thought that things would get better of themselves. What if I follow you around all the time and scab cake off you, you feckless, lazy, middle class eejit? Apart from 20,000 douchebag lefties in Europe, the world's population is clamouring for globalisation and liberalisation because they recognise that it has made them richer in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Forget changing the world: try changing your socks.

´swampie´ (don't you know that name´s been trademarked?) i don't know where you get your information but sitting here in buenos aires after a hard day's maydaying and sock changing yesterday I can you that what you say is full-on bullshit. people here are unemployed, angry, some starving and raiding supermarkets cos the model just don't work. after years of IMF intervention and politicians´ promises about the eventual benefits of privatisiation, belt-tightening etc etc even the once rich are on the streets alongside the peasants, unemployed workers, students without an economic future. theft of common property may seem like douchebag rhetoric to you sitting pretty in the fat north but for people here it´s daily reality, and protesting is not fun but unavoidable.
all i can say ´swampie´ is get out and about a bit more, try and read literature without sponsorship, talk to people without programming, and realise exactly what is going down on this poor planet of ours.
(or are you just another of those sad lackeys paid to spout conservative shit on behalf of those richer than yourself? in which case please just fuck off. thankyou.)

Ok swampy,I'm sorry for being a middle class hand wringer.

As one of the people giveing out cake i think i need to defend this for the likes of ye.
I'm sorry that we didn't kick in a macdonalds like what we're ment to.We wanted to make a serious point in a non serious way,and hey-eveyone loves cake!
I disagree with you saying bout how everyone is 'clambering' to get on the globalisation bandwagon.Alot of the people I spoke to had 'leftist' sympatheys but it seemed that they didn't know how they could do anything constructive with it.
I would suggest that rather than a groundswell for Lazzies Faireism there is a lack of cohesive 'left' organisations for the oppostion to make their voices heard.
cheers

chris "i'd quite like to eat cake,as it goes" faulkner