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Time and again in the communist bloc, economic reformers from Moscow to Pyongyang planned to introduce rationality and markets into planning.
They often thought they had won the argument,
-- and not just among dissidents in labor camps but at the highest levels of their Politburos.
Yet almost every time, their proposed reforms were either whittled down to nothing before implementation, or passed and then reversed after a few months or years.
Why?
These reformers …

Why communist reformers always lost
Communism had reforming optimists too. Their failure can help today’s reformers to avoid the same fate.

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The Jesus and Mary Chain:
🎵 Reverence
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https://thejesusandmarychain.bandcamp.com/track/reverence-live
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Reform UK och De Gröna är nu största partier i Storbritannien, enligt en ny mätning (Yougov/Skynews)!

Mariska Hargitay's End The Backlog Rape Kit Campaign Achieves Milestone
https://deadline.com/2026/05/mariska-hargitay-rape-kit-reform-50-states-law-order-svu-1236878352/

Wir haben haben ja Zeit. Ausgerechnet dort wo Mehrarbeit notwendig ist fehlt sie. #politik #aufschwung #cdu

"Nicht alles bis Dezember fertig": Kanzleramtschef Frei dämpft Erwartung an schnelle Reformen
Der nächste Bundestag wird 2029 gewählt. Bis dahin will die Koalition große Reformen umsetzen. Die Rente hat Priorität. Nicht nur dieses Vorhaben könnte allerdings bis Ende der Legislaturperiode dauern.

To repeal or not to repeal is not the question for Section 230 (Nadine Farid Johnson/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5809261-section-230-reform-needed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p77#a260401p77

Sadiq Khan - Labour must stop imitating 'Reform'.
"In all my mayoral elections in London, I asked potential Green supporters to lend me their vote so that we could deliver progressive policies to build a fairer, safer, greener and more prosperous London for everyone. Many did, but it only worked because people believed we would walk the walk, not just talk the talk."
/Cont'd.

Wayland-Referenz-Compositor Weston 15 mit Lua-Shell und Vulkan-Renderer
Der Wayland-Referenz-Compositor Weston ist in Version 15 erschienen. Sie bringt einen Vulkan-Renderer und eine Lua-Shell mit.
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Neoliberalism is dead and there is an alternative. Not an alternative for Germany, not a reform nor restoration for the UK, not freedom for Austria, but an alternative, a way out for us all: socialism and liberation.

Gorton and Denton - a rough vote analysis.
Green vote gain (10,200) was 2,000 short of Lib/Left reductions
Reform vote gain (5400) 3250 more than Tory reduction.
Suggests broadly that Greens got the Lib/Left votes and Reform the Tory ones, but some Labour went to Reform.
However the stay at homes likely to have been different population each time, with Greens mobilising former abstentions and Labour having more abstensions this time.
Very similar turnout 2024 and 2…