Not trying to be dismissive but you putting this on indimedia, the answers are all going to be the same.

"all the world problems can be solved by going to a hard line communist/anachist/revolutionary politik."

Try at Brunnel Uni or the LSE they mite give a hoot about people not dogma

Anon wrote:
Not trying to be dismissive but you putting this on indimedia, the answers are all going to be the same.

"all the world problems can be solved by going to a hard line communist/anachist/revolutionary politik."

Try at Brunnel Uni or the LSE they mite give a hoot about people not dogma

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I suspect that this is taking a pop at the perceived uniformity of political orientation at IMC, and perhaps there may be some validity. I'm not interested in debating that. If there is however, then maybe it will be a necessary counter-balance to the hegemonic notions that humans above all else have rights, and that within that large group are humans who control industry and wield influence and secure for themselves more rights and privileges that over-ride the rights of the larger group should their respective interests ever conflict. Such as the right to own shares in an industry that manufactures weapons of mass destruction that wipes out the right to life for the victims as selected by some or other governmental dictator which chooses to deploy it.

We would all agree that the current situation isn't so wonderful; it isn't working, and proceeds on the backs of so many assumptions that no longer apply, and in many instances are antithetical to well-being. Why not raise some counter-arguments? Why not challenge opinion and "received wisdom". Hell, the SDC is even willing to examine the concept of "Prosperity without growth" (Tim Jackson, 2009):  http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=914 which is worth the read. It may be that there is a well of change spilling up. I think that these kinds of events are important - "mainstream" ways of inputting viable alternatives, so that these become memes that help shape the discourse. Ideas can be like viruses: each of us can be a vector of contamination. These events become opportunities to start accessing the more "mainstream" points of view, posing a more radical critique of the issues and practical experience of alternatives in organisation and provision. This isn't about furthering the traditional political cause ... it is about information sharing and converting awareness into commitments to act. Events such as these offer the opportunity to engage in such ways, inside the traditional forums and through the authorised channels, and to let people who use the info gathered at such events know just what is at stake and about viable non-partisan grass-root democratic and self-regulating alternatives.