You Judge A Society By The Decency

Like The Phoenix, Socialism Is Reborn From Every Pile Of Ashes Left Day In, Day Out, By Burnt-out Human Dreams And Charred Hopes.

We Are Living At The Moment In Revolutionary Times. Argentineans Probably Are More Aware Of It Than Anybody Else, Because They Tasted It Several Years Earlier - But Now The Whole World Is In Trouble.

The Bible Unites Its Interpreters As A Shared Focus Of Attention, But It Does Not Demand Consensus. On The Contrary, It Invites And Prods Us To Make Responsible Choices, To Take Responsibility For The Choices That We Have Made... It Was Always Like That, And Our Holy Scripture Grows Over The Centuries, Gets Thicker And Thicker, With More Texts Around, Which Need/have To Be Looked Into, Referred To, Considered.

Security Was The Demand Which Set In Motion Labour Movements In History; Trade Unions, Friendly Societies, Consumer Cooperatives Were All About Compensating For The Impotence Of Individual Resistance.

If You Look Back On The History Of The 20th Century, The 19th Century Or Even To The Ancien Régime Of The 18th, You Will See That First People Rebelled Against The Order Of The Things Because Of Lack Of Liberty, And Demanded More Freedom. And When They Got More Freedom, They Got Frightened, And They Desired More Security For A Change. After A While, They Started Complaining, Although More Secure, They Also Become More Dependent And Rule-bound.