Ken Burch
1 min readJun 3, 2020

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That would be best. We can create something better. It wouldn't be Soviet Communism-that is extinct globally and nobody wants to bring it back to life here. Not watered-down European social democracy, which would be a great improvement. We can run life, including the economy, from below, by setting up worker-owned cooperatives in which everyone will have a share and a sayin how things are run and no one will be treated as "deadwood". We can create ways of dealing with violence that don't require GREATER violence, by working, from childhood, to remove violence from each of our spirits. We can end racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ prejudice, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia by teaching all children to accept everyone else as an equal and as they are-because we know that bigotry only exists among those who have been, as Rodgers and Hammerstein put it, "Carefully Taught".

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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