"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"
(Leonard Cohen)
"Ignore all proffered rules and create your own, suitable for what you want to say"
(Michael Moorcock)
"Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings."
(Andre Gide)

"I want my place, my own place, my true place in the world, my proper sphere, my thing which Nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus awry, and which I have vainly sought all my life-time."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
(Franz Kafka)
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated"
(John Donne)
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
(Robert J. Hanlon)
"Life is beautiful, but the world is hell"
(Harold Pinter)

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Care Provision Should Be Free, Not For Profit

EXTRACT: Dilnot suggests that the old should be made to pay for the care of other older people - yet in every other part of the welfare system the costs are borne by society as a whole. Care for the elderly should be no different from the NHS - it should be free at the point of use and provided on the basis of need. Communists certainly reject all ‘solutions’ based on the private sector, which not only pursue profits as their main goal, but always degenerate into soulless - and very costly - nightmares in terms of the quality of care and human fulfilment. Domiciliary Care, Carewatch, Care UK, etc, prove that beyond doubt. For us, it is an obscenity to claim that society cannot afford to ensure that people’s winter years are satisfying, comfortable, stimulating and fully integrated with the rest of society. And if Cameron, Duncan Smith and Dilnot say that the capitalist system cannot afford to do this then our answer is simple. Their system should go.
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