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I’ve had similar thoughts in the past. Unsuprisingly it’s already been thought of a long time ago. Proudhon had a similar idea where by workers would club together their money to buy up businesses and run them as co-operatives, once all the businesses had been bought from private hands we would be in socialism!There’s a really funny exchange between Marx and Engels on Proudhon’s plan which I’ll try and find for you. At least I remember it as being funny, Of course co-operatives have been tried within capitalism as far back as Robert Owen. Another example would be the Kibbutz movement in Isreal which I know one member has worked in and would be far more qualified to talk about than I would.I think I get where you’re coming from with this idea. At least for me, it was the notion that people need to see something happening before they’ll jump on board. However, ultimately it will be declining material conditions which will force people to look to revolution and socialism not a commune.

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If I’m still around I’d like to get involved with this in whatever way I can.

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oh the zietgeist vs Ron Paul one was very funny as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZFvWJQ8WSE

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Number 7 is my favourite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b66u-mzfBPEIt’s worth having a watch through some of them. They’re Australian and big fans of wiki leaks they got Julian Assange to appear in episode 5. Other than that I don’t think they have any clear politics except a vague anti capitalism and support for national liberation struggles.

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so I did, I hope that wasn’t freudian. More likely I spelt it wrong or my spell cheka didn’t recognize it and I clicked the wrong option. Thanks for the replies (and in the duplicate thread) I’m reading through them all, very useful stuff and thanks for the E-mail as well.

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It’s a great speech but was Chaplin perhaps slightly hypocritical seeing as he was an avid supporter of Stalin?

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