A former member writes

Hello Nod,So, over 30 years you have managed to amass a comfortable pile of crumbs. You’ve put yourself to use, the only use that people are able to put themselves in the present social system, and helped increase the size of the cake that is societies capital. But by spending too much time staring at your pile of crumbs you’ve failed to noticed that the cake mix is rotten, that the fumes from the bakery pollute the environment we live in and that the bakery owner grows fat from your efforts.That a life of wage slavery should have such an effect on someone is understandable, even well paid wage workers are always in a precarious position, whether or not they are aware of it. Most slaves, even well fed ones, secretly dreamed of being slave-masters. We seek the end of the system wage slavery.You should really know better.

 
Yes  very strange indeed,  He is almost a parody of your stereotypical Daily Mail reader – with his complacent,  self-satisfied , I’m-all-right-Jack–and-stuff- the-rest -of-you attitude  . And the guy clearly doesn’t have much of a clue about socialism either with his  objection to distributing  his hard-earned cash to others, who have contributed nothing to society, for the sake of equalisation. 
It just doesn’t add up .  The chirpy familiarity – “Hi Guys! (and Dolls)” – and the odd Marx quote suggesting someone  who has done a little reading around and whose outlook on life is a little broader than singlemindedly  getting on in the rat-race, making loadsa money and dying of a pre retirement heart attack,   just doesnt seem to sit easily  with the naff and drearily predictable sad sentiments of your typical right-up-your-own-backside egotistical type. “Look at  me!. Look at what a success I am,  having  got where I am through sheer graft.. Why should I share what I have achieved with you. So fuck of!!”.  Strewth,  give us break.. This is , well., so passe,  luv.  Gordon Gecko said it all back in the 1980s and we’ve moved on since then.
But what intrigues me is why reestablish contact  with an organisation with you were evidently only very fleetingly acquainted all those years ago and with which you today have so little in common.  Now there’s a mystery. Perhaps Mr Mystery Man  should tell us more about this voyage of self discovery he has seemingly embarked upon

 
This is true but this itself is part of a larger problem that is capitalism and the priorities it pursues which often promote corruption and sometimes war

 
Dumping food on world markets can sometimes simply have the effect of transferring the problem elsewhere. If I remember correctly, India’s decision to reverse its policy on food exports a number of years ago had adverse consequences for a number of  other food exporting countries whose farmers suffered as a result.  As it happens much of the food surpluses at the time succumbed to spoilage because of inadequate warehousing facilities due to poor funding. It is also well known that well intended charitable efforts at delivering food to people who desparately need it such as in times of drought  can undermines efforts to to revive farming locally. Such is the perversity of the market system
Apart from that, there is the literal dumping  (meaning destruction) of food. – not just at the retail end of the supply chain as when supermarkets dump stuff in skips etc  but at the production end as well. Locally , here in Spain Ive seen tons of cherry tomatoes rotting in the barrancos around the grotesquely ugly greenhouse belt  along the coast  between Adra and Almeria (the only other man-made structure you can see from outer space  – apart from the Great Wall of China, apparently).  These greenhouses proliferating like a cancer are a particularly vivid illustration of the utter irrationality  of market capitalism and the ecological disasters it brings in its train. Many of the greenhouses now stand empty. Ilegal wells having drained the acquifer have enabled an inrush of sea water to fill the vacumm leading to salinisation of the water supply.. The surrounding countryside has been affected too and as the vegetation suffers erosion sets in, compounding problems
There is of course also the deliberate withdrawal of agricultural land prompted by apparent overproduction in the form of  food surpluses. Millions of hectares of land have been affected by this within the EU alone.

 
Good . So you  are not  quite of the Im-alright-Jack-And-Stuff-The Rest-Of-You  persuasion that came across strongly in your original post. Glad to hear of it!

The email writter seems to have completely failed to realise that actual point of what socialism is. Socialism’s aim is not to give all his money to the poor that have “not worked” it is to get rid of the use of money, for as we well know: money is the root of all poverty. This former member may well be sitting in his pretty lounge decorated with all the trappings of a well paid job and it is in this case that people such as him fail to understand the problem associated with capitalism. While he is happy to swan around pretending not to be chained to his position in the capitalist system of society he is continuing to turn a blind eye to his acceptance of a perpetually exploitative method of allowing a few bullies to control the rest of us: how we live and how we die. While this person is happy with his tiny little piece of wealth and his position along the social spectrum he is just another individual happily sitting back with his feet up brainwashing himself, letting more and more people who have do not have any hope in all the universe suffer endlessly now and in the future. This is the attitude that will-if left unchecked-allow the continual stripping of the world, its people and its resources for the sake of a better living for a minority of people.