tlmorg02

You will get there. You will love it. I love most the people and the freedom that they have. The people in Marseilles are not bound by the clock as Americans are. In the morning we would go to the cafe' and eat. We would nurse coffee for a time with neighbors and friends. It is so nice. Alice does some of her work from a lap top that she keeps with her. We sit out by the ocean and I would type paper and she would work a case and we would marvel at the splendid nothingness of freedom. How great it is. We will be going in a month or so.

We bought it 25 years ago. We rented it out and then gave a long term lease to the caretaker. He has planted a lovely garden with gape vines and does make some wine from it. It overlooks the ocean. We love it. We were on a tour of France and got to Marseilles and fell so madly in love that we bought this house. We stayed and left the tour. It was great. We spent the summer there. Alice is an attorney and I had some time from the U due me. So we spent 4 months there.
We go a lot of things set up. Now the caretaker has a family and lives there rent free in trade for the upkeep. He has two daughters that are 18 and 16 now. We were there when they were each born. This has been their home. There dad is an artist and farmer. he is a handy man. His wife is makes crafts and they sell things in Paris. We love them like family. When we vacation there Alice and I stay with them in the house. They are our extended family.

I retired a little early do to health. I will still be doing a few things at the University. I do my tour and the Salon's spring and summer. They are huge fund raisers. The salons are a big hit with all the academia around. They find what we do to be great fun. The U has asked that i keep that up. My partner is a few years from retirement so we will stay in the states until she has retired. Then we move to Marseilles France. We look forward to that day. We have a home there that we rent out now. We visit a few times a year as well.

I am a retired professor in social science. I taught grad students. My classes and lecture serious were on the US revolutionary movements post 1950. We covered all sorts of protests and movements of that era. I had a lot of experience with many of them. It was a good fit for me.

How marvelous. That is to be congratulated. Very good.

I really haven't been on to many. I was in a thread in sex and sexuality.

How are you today? I trust you had a good evening.

I hope to continue also. Take care.

That guy that is posting in that revolution thread knows zero about socialism. He sounds like my grandparents who would be 118 now if they were alive. They knew nothing of it either.

Ture socialism works in small communities. My partner and I are part of a socialist community and there are about 500 of us now. We live in the city but a segment of the community now lives in a town with a farm. I don't think socialism can work if it comes out of violent revolution. It is an evolutionary process and will come.

The problem with bringing socialist ideas to the US is that you have people that knpw zero think they know it all like the gentleman posting in that thread. You cannot even stage a debate. all he does it rant.

Read Marx and Engels to start. there are many others that are very good as well.

There you go. It takes some time to get used to the dodads.

this one showed up.

Tell me some of your views and how you manged to find your way to socialism.

You click view conversation and that will put you to our discussion.

You are correct, but there are many new capital markets arising. In the Middle Ages or Dark Ages in Europe, Asia was the world economic hegemon. China in particular was the trading hub of the world. My observations of current events lead me to think that perhaps China will once again become the economic and possibly military superpower of the world. If not then their ascent will carry with it the "balance of power" policies of the past and a multipolar world. If this happens will we see another Dark Age set-upon the West, as the East becomes capitalist, or will it simply swiften the evolution of governments to socialism. I would go with dark ages if I had to bet.

In Europe there are a lot of countries that are budding socialistic states. They have social works and programs. They have not reached an economic equality yet. They still overly reward some off the labor of others. The markets see to that when you have an investor that does nothing but gets rewarded. They also have independent land ownership. That is always a problem. People seem to think they are entitled to own land. That belongs to all of us.

Europe is on a threshold in such countries as Sweden where the communities get together and determine what services they need and they buy them for all. This is the way to a true socialist state. The workers unite to make their lives better without the interference of the owner class and the land owners.

I think Europe is ready to take the step. Once they really unite then it will happen. We will slowly see the necessary changes. Capital systems are dying around the globe.

That would be very nice. i would like that as well. It is so nice meeting you.