Anyone who thinks humans are condemned to nasty and brutish lives in capitalism, because human nature is supposedly nasty and brutish, should note what happens when people go walking on a seashore and accidentally get cut off by the advancing tide.<\/p>\n
Do they drown, because nasty and brutish humans couldn’t care less? No, lifeboat volunteers go out in all weathers to rescue them, as happened this month<\/a> to three students. In January, the RNLI rescued more students<\/a> in heaving seas during Storm \u00c9owyn. ‘The students were reportedly \u201cextremely grateful\u201d and said they could not believe all the crew were unpaid volunteers.’<\/p>\n Humans help each other whenever they can. That’s why socialism will work.<\/p>\n It’s capitalism that’s nasty and brutish. Let’s hope it’s also short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-256908","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/256908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}