From the Guardian newspaper in the UK an editorial by Gareth Stedman Jones, who has written the introduction to the new Pwnguin Classics edition of the Communist Manifesto, titled All that's left is reformism. He says that as there is no post-capitalist society in the name of which we can despise all attempts to reform the existing political and economic system, we should embrace the only alternative. This is to push for reform of the current system, which has improved conditions in the past. The last line is Cynicism or silence about the possibility of reform merely reinforces the rightwing fantasy of a global capitalism without politics: a world made ever safer for Enron and Berlusconi. Now that's a scary thought. Sometimes it does seem easier, as in coding, to throw away the existing system and rewrite the whole thing from scratch. On the other hand, progressive refactoring, with constant testing, can get to a much better end result without massive chaos. Refactor the system bumper sticker perhaps?