From: chétane@enfer.biz.invalid   
      
   Santiago Rojas wrote:   
      
   > The socialist model of the future is based on:   
   >   
   > * Lenin (1922-1924): The real president of the USSR. All power to the   
   > soviets!   
   > * Josip Broz Tito (1950-1989): Self-management, no bowing down.   
   > * Salvador Allende (1970-1973): Democratic socialism, Chilean path, Latin   
   > American sovereignty, nobody's backyard!   
   >   
   > Long live socialism!!   
   >   
   > ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!   
   >   
   >   
      
   Hmmm. Tito really-really did not get on well with the USSR and its allies.   
   Have you ever wondered why that was the case???   
      
   But to his credit he has managed to unite the Mediterranean Slavic   
   people for the duration of his life.   
   Pity this unity did not last after his passing.   
      
   In the current very nasty environment created by the resurgent far-right   
   and unapologetic extreme capitalist fascism across the western countries   
   socialism has to take a step back and take a hard look at its own   
   strategic mistakes during the past 100 years and learn from them.   
      
   As it has been previously concluded by a number of great socialist   
   thinkers, capitalism won't just simply go away quietly before it has   
   exhausted all possible routes of its continuing survival. This should   
   give us the time to rethink how to progress onwards. My personal take on   
   this is to concentrate on models of from the ground up organised   
   decentralised democracy. The top down method of leading people towards   
   socialism has resulted in failure after failure.   
      
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