tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207753858421003261.post780104884877147806..comments2008-10-17T05:12:03.158-07:00Clive Searlenoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207753858421003261.post-30071146529705858532008-10-17T05:12:00.000-07:002008-10-17T05:12:00.000-07:00Capitalism is the economic system in which the means of production are owned by private persons, and operated for profit and where investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are predominantly determined through the operation of a free market.<BR/>--------------------<BR/><BR/>Adam<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.drivenwide.com" REL="nofollow">Social marketing</A>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17353921074690923592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207753858421003261.post-26775665651338941192008-10-15T02:04:00.000-07:002008-10-15T02:04:00.000-07:00What Pete says is spot on, of course it is important to get some good points but they need to arise not from the minds of a few but from a real process involving people across the movements.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps a roll for the proposed left forums would be to develop this?Joseph Kisolonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207753858421003261.post-1140659424932593342008-10-12T14:41:00.000-07:002008-10-12T14:41:00.000-07:00Whilst few socialists would actively disagree with anything in this programme, it was said at the convention that there are at least four 'ten point lists' of demands out there already. Assembling a list is fairly straightforward. What is important is how that process and the resulting programme is used to build the movement.<BR/>If a broad alliance of organisations sign up to a joint 'emergency programme' then it might mean something. If it only comes from the recall conference without a commitment for existing groups to fight for its adoption in the wider movement it will mean little.Petehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02594236266660058318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207753858421003261.post-70172077771414012372008-10-09T12:48:00.000-07:002008-10-09T12:48:00.000-07:00Thanks redfront - any idea what you actually mean by that? It sounds like the same stuff the left have been saying for years - with very few peope listening. <BR/><BR/>I'm genuinely interested in what the step by step activities actually are when you refer to 'immediate tasks' and 'general tasks'. <BR/><BR/>What are they? Who does them? How do you win them? Being 'hard' is no substitute for a real strategy. So let's discuss that rather than timeless rhetoric.looking for answersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207753858421003261.post-23427177668027356602008-10-09T05:59:00.000-07:002008-10-09T05:59:00.000-07:00Things have definitely got bitter<BR/>Half hour watching TV since the £400 Billion gift yesterday.<BR/>-60 local authorites 'lost'£100-m+in Iceland banks<BR/>-Barclay's capital to buy a lump of Lehman brothers. Diamond last year had his bonus severly cut from £22m to £21m. <BR/>Problem is people will switch off as I did. Need to explain the real causes very soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1207753858421003261.post-72975490556882557372008-10-09T05:41:00.000-07:002008-10-09T05:41:00.000-07:00Very soft, very soft indeed. I think we need to go a lot further, and unity cannot be formed on an action programme, it has to be on a socialist programme which takes up the immediate tasks we face alongside our more general tasks over the next period.RedFrontnoreply@blogger.com