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Originally Posted by Furyous
It's certainly a minority in the UK (and the West generally). It is not insignificant, but certainly a minority.
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Well, the people in the UK are very important to me but they do only represent 1% of the world's population. We can ignore the other 99% but then our discussion will be slightly askew. Of course "the west" (incl. Japan and Australia but excluding Peru probably...) is a larger, but still relatively small proportion of the population.
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The idea that socialiam must be truly international to work is a clever one.
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I wouldn't really say that socialism has to be international (in the sense that every single country or even most countries "have" to be socialism) but it'd be nice to have a revolution which calls itself socialism not be invaded, attacked, blockaded and generally pissed on by the imperialist nations.
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Originally Posted by JBG
Well there would be some instant problems. Land redistribution would have to happen at the start and this would need to be a global thing.
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Well, I'm not sure what you mean by land redistribution or "at the start". The start is right this second. The end is the end of the universe. Talking about "when the revolution comes" may keep Trotskyites warm at night, but basically these social changes are happening right now and won't be over quickly.