...If this estimate is even approximately correct, is it not time for the government to take some steps to prevent the remaining coal of the west from passing to the hands of corporations, to prevent wasteful methods of mining and use, and to conserve for the use of the common people even this small fraction of the total coal of the country? No doubt there is a great difference of opinion on this subject, but it is hard to see how any fair-minded person interested in the good of the people of this country rather than the corporations can look upon the present situation with other than concern, and can fail to unite in an effort to avert the evil consequences that may be in store for future generations.

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From the January 1907 edition of the National Geographic. There have always been socialists and communists among us, I and some of my cohorts occasionally forget this fact.

I just recently came across an electronic copy of every national geographic ever published, and in the first one I open (quoted above) the main article attempts to answer the question: what happens when the coal runs out and civilization collapses sometime in the next 100 years?

9/9/2005 12:52:09 AM

it used to be patriotic to be a socialist

once upon a time

9/9/2005 1:36:41 AM

things change

9/9/2005 2:36:11 AM

more like...

terrible, unfortunate events cause things to have a negative stigmata attached to them, thus demonizing an ideology that had good intentions.

oh well

[Edited on September 9, 2005 at 2:49 AM. Reason : .]

9/9/2005 2:49:35 AM

Quote :

"stigmata"

man, those Romans did fuck it up for everybody

[Edited on September 9, 2005 at 4:15 AM. Reason : x]

9/9/2005 4:01:54 AM