I've never responded to this list before. Please, don't be gentle. Let me
have it!


Our biggest problem as human beings is that we are just that - human beings.
Too bad some would say, but not me. We certainly are interesting. Aren't we?
Any society created by us is doomed to be imperfect. The problems come from
deep within our natures. I respect and expect that we will try to reach
"Utopia" and fail to do so. At least I hope so. There'd be nothing for me to
do in utopia.
Our responsibility as libertarian socialists is to think, question, notice,
speak loudly, organize and always be aware of the nature of our human being.
While continually trying to always rise above and nudging (sometimes begging)
society to come along.

Mr. Weinberg's alternative --
<<the Civilized Egalitarian Capitalist Utopia, in which business and culture
would be
synthesized through cross-investments, and a democratic government -- itself
checked by independent courts -- would encourage production, competition, and
donations to nonprofit institutions. His own "modest" vision aside, Mr.
Weinberg
recognizes that there is "no simple formula that will tell us how to strike a
balance
between the dangers from governing elites and those from majority rule or free
markets, or between the opportunities and the hazards of new technology.">>
Seems logical to me.

DEBRA KAY