TomandBob
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‘People who “don’t give a damn” about these things where their pleasures are concerned would, I hope, be publicly shamed’.
How? Sent to a gulag?
‘We should be thinking of a more balanced approach to life’.
But, what you consider as ‘a balanced approach to life’ may be different to someone else. I’m happy to use public transport as I live in a city, while someone else may find having a car more important. I only wash with soap, someone else may like using different shower gels and putting on different body sprays each day.
‘We call for a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume.'(Sylvia Pankhurst). That seems like a pretty good aim.
Socialism became less attractive when it became lumped in with environmentalism. Instead of calling for abundance for all it became an ideology wanting to share out the misery. A case in point is fossil fuels. An advanced society needs energy, and plenty of it. The easiest way to generate energy is by burning fossil fuels. The emissions are bad for human health and the environment, but we have the technology and ability to find ways of using these resources more efficiently. Until ‘Socialism’ is associated with abundance for all and a positive view of the future it will continue to be rejected by the people.
