Dear Douglas and friends all,
Douglas' fine outcomes need a suitable 'process' (or 'mechanism') for their
delivery.
I suggest that this process needs to be based upon a co-operative mode
(since competitive/conflict modes necessarily deliver poorer relationships
than cc-operative modes.)
>>>> At the end of this posting, <<<<<
I've put a seven-point economic plan to achieve a co-operative commonweal
for folk to discuss - particularly with their young folk (after the turkey
??!!)
( I'd be glad to hear comments - particularly about relationships that this
plan fails to identify and/or nurture.)
Hugs to all,
j
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>From: "Douglas P. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: FW -- a solution?
>Date: Fri, Dec 24, 1999, 6:11 AM
>
>
> If added to the Tentative Typology of Solutions mine would read:
>
> Make the world a better place, then use the other solution types.
>
> That may seem unrealistic, futile, annoying, or crazy, but I do have
> a very specific plan for making the world a better place, and it's
> that plan I was referring to when a mentioned a Genuine Solution.
>
> It starts with a simple idea:
>
> The key idea is to make it easy to find and maintain strong social
> relationships and other parts of a good social environment.
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Co-operative Socialism - A Plan of Action
o Convert competitive activities into worker co-operative partnerships and
remodel monopoly activities as stakeholder co-operatives,
(see points two and five for the funding mechanism for this);
o Redistribute 'added-value' from these co-operatives, through
nationally-collected corporate taxation, distributed into local,
democratically-controlled Community Banks, thus making money available for
wealth creation and community development,
(and the conversions referred to above);
o Maximise necessary service provision (health, education, libraries,
transport (?) etc) on a free-at-the-point-of-use basis, retaining
(initially?) money as a mechanism for access to discretionary purchases.
o Introduce guaranteed income maxima and minima for all, and, so, abolish
personal taxation;
o Abolish money-lending for profit, operating banking and financial
services as a Public Service, 'National Wealth Service'
(see point two above);
o Reintroduce international exchange controls as necessary;
o Make capital grants (not loans) to developing countries.
In brief, transforming money - from master to servant - provides the way of
converting planet-trashing capitalism into locally-controlled, sustainable,
ethical co-operatives, each operating according to the 'Seven Co-operative
Principles' of The International Co-operative Alliance, all working
inter-dependently to deliver sustainable, 'responsible stewardship' of the
earth - for the long-lived well-being of all.
Dr John Courtneidge 13 North Road Hertford SG14 1LN
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01992 501854
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More hugs
j
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