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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 32px; COLOR: rgb(127,1,0)">CAPITALISM IN CRISIS</SPAN><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: rgb(127,1,0)"><B><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: xx-large">THE CASE FOR SOCIALISM</SPAN></B></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">SOCIALISM is based on the idea that we should use the</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">vast resources of society to meet people's needs. If</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">people are hungry, they should be fed; if people are</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">homeless, we should build homes for them; if people are</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">sick, the best medical care should be available to them.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Socialism would take the wealth of the rich and use it to</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">meet the basic needs of all society. Instead of that kind</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">of society, we have been through years of war for oil and</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">empire, decades of rollbacks on workers' wages and</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">living-standards, attacks on civil rights and women's</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">rights, cuts in health-care, and more. On top of this, the</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">growing economic crisis—foreclosures, food and fuel</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">inflation, and increasing unemployment—are calling into</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">question the ability of the system as it is currently set-up</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">to function at all. Come to this forum to discuss how we</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">can organize a society without war and racism, a society</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">based on human need instead of corporate greed.</DIV>
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