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We need housing abundance

Posted on December 15, 2024 by c21styork

We need housing abundance

I’m sharing this from David McMullen’s substack, 13 December 2024, which I highly recommend.

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Posted in Housing crisis - Australia, socialism | Tagged affordable-housing, David McMullen, housing, Housing crisis - Australia, landlord, landlords, real-estate, socialism | 1 Comment

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… because I believe in a bright future based on ‘abundance for all’ and innovation freed from the profit motive and private ownership, and I want to help make a difference. And I refuse to allow the likes of John Pilger, Tariq Ali, George Galloway, Caitlin Johnstone, Zahra Sultana et al to be seen as leftists.

An ‘anti-imperialism’ that leads to siding with oppressive autocratic, fascist, and clericalist dictatorships against the people is not worth having.

 

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