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Editor,
Democratic Green Socialist,
20 June 2009
Dear Comrade,
Economics
is supposed to be the science of how society is
financed. Actually it is an alibi for the fat
cats and a justification for inequality.
Solidarity should be using the present crisis to
demolish it and replace with something we can use
to analyse the situation. John Wight’s
article is not good enough for this purpose.
Once
I worked rewriting technical publications and a
good rule was avoiding sentences with more than
50 words. The first five sentences have, on
average, 67 words each, and not short words at
that. And it doesn’t get any better.
The
prose is littered with long words that most of us
would need a dictionary to help us understand.
Cde Wight could argue that most academic texts
are stiffer than this one. However, academic
texts are meant for students, and if they
don’t. they fail their exams. Political
texts are intended for plain folk who need to be
persuaded to read and understand them, socialists
don’t see political theory as something for
the learned, it should be for everyone.
Finally, Solidarity is not a party where invoking
the name of Marx wins arguments. Not all of us
are Marxists, nor should we all be, and Marx
never claimed divinity.
Yours fraternally
GEOFF SKEET
Dear DGS,
May I take this opportunity
through the pages on the left’s best and
most progressive magazine to thank, Michael,
Neil, Buzz and Gene and all the support crew for
their mammoth achievement 40 years ago this
month.
What you risked and achieved
you risked and achieved for all humankind.
Thank You.
Third Stone from the Sun
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