| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Book review ~ Joe replys to Ken Palmerston | | Date: | Thursday, August 4, 2005 16:14:00 (+0100) | | From: | Kenneth Palmerton <kenpalmerton @................uk>
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Hi Joe.
Mondragon is a most interesting social movement that grew out of the
devastation in the Basque region of Spain, in the aftermath of their civil
war.
The original driving forces were a Roman Catholic Priest, and the
Anarchist political movement. Yes I know, strange bedfellows :-))
To a hardline and blinkered Social Creditor it might seem that there is
nothing of common interest. Looking deeper there was, there was an
understanding of work as the creator of basic wealth, and the
understanding, that is not so easily recognised, that the availability of
money was vital. They created their own bank. Which the literature seems
to play down. I wonder why :-)
>From this bank money came, under circumstances that I do not fully
understand, due to my having no Spanish, let alone Basque, or a friend to
translate for me. But I can find no reference at all to debt :-)
This money was paid to people to enable them to "Buy" a job, by which they
mean that groups could come together to plan and execute a plan of
productive enterprise, be it fishing, engineering, construction or
commercial activity of any nature that firstly the community needed, or
that they could trade with for what they did not have.
The Socialists HATED it. Give people DIRECT power over their own
production. That's heresy :-(((
Schools, Hospitals, and a whole range of infrastructure projects were
undertaken. Including eventually a College that played an important part
in the development of the idea. Including a place for retraining for those
enterprises that found their chosen product, or service, was no longer
viable.
To my knowledge there have been very few company failures. I do know of
one fishing co-operative that failed, but I do not know the details.
There is much more to this, and a great deal written. All of it, in my
opinion, interesting to those who wish to study differing models of what
you actually do in a community, when the insanity of our existing monetary
system is shown up for what it is.
Fraudulent.
Ken.
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