Re: 48 Nobel Laureates Endorse Kerry

From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:23:01 +0100

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jonathan Kirwan
<jkirwan@easystreet.com> wrote (in <p583m0prhp9csl3a3ch5h3f7l37i37gq73@4
ax.com>) about '48 Nobel Laureates Endorse Kerry', on Mon, 4 Oct 2004:
>The group that is roughly the diametric opposite of the one that
>bolsters the accumulation of wealth and power into fewer hands, I
>suppose. This is neither Democrat or Republican, in the capital-letter
>(proper noun) sense.

Sounds awfully like Old Labour, in British politics, to me. Does he
believe in:

"To secure for all the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of
their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be
possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of
production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of
popular administration and control of each industry of service."

.... the notorious wording of the former Clause 4 of the Labour Party
Constitution. For 'common' read 'Government'. For 'popular' read
'Government'.

It doesn't say that now. Even these democratic socialists have found
that governments are VERY BAD at running businesses. One might infer
that businessmen are VERY BAD at running governments, and there is some
truth in that, at least in a democracy. 

-- 
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. 
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