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Issue #1
Who let my fish loose?
which breed fundamentalist terror.
So their goal is not to earn money,
but to change the world, though if
this makes them more money as
a by-product, who's to complain!
The exemplary figures of evil today
are not ordinary consumers who pollute
the environment and live in a
violent world of disintegrating social
links, but those who, while fully
engaged in creating conditions for
such universal devastation and pollution,
buy their way out of their own
activity, living in gated communities,
eating organic food, taking holidays
in wildlife preserves, and so on.
Liberal communists are pragmatic. They hate
a doctrinaire approach. For them there is no
single exploited working class today. There are
only concrete problems to be solved: starvation
in Africa, the plight of Muslim women, religious
fundamentalist violence. When there
is a humanitarian crisis in Africa - and liberal
communists really love humanitarian crises,
which bring out the best in them!-there is no
point in engaging in old-style anti-imperialist
rhetoric. Instead, all of us should just concentrate
on what really does the work of solving
the problem: engage people, governments, and
business in a common enterprise; start moving
things, instead of relying on centralised state
help; approach the crisis in a creative and unconventional
way, without fretting over labels.
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Above all, liberal communists are true citizens
of the world. They are good people who worry.
They worry about populist fundamentalists
and irresponsible, greedy capitalist corporations.
They see the "deeper causes" of today's
problems: it is mass poverty and hopelessness