Abuse of power

Randy Stone stonerandy at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 10 15:50:19 PST 1998



>Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:22:25 -0500
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Abuse of power
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
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>So, James, you're not the least bit worried that a chunk of ice the
size of
>Delaware recently broke off the polar icecap? That storms seem to be
>getting more frequent, destructive, and unpredictable? Just the
fantasies
>of Malthusian misanthropes?
>
>I won't even bring up the fact that most red-greens are as critical of
>Malthusian misanthropes as you are.
>
>Doug
>
The distinction to make is between critical/scientific and critical/utopian. Greens follow the utopian path first expressed by Sismonde, slow down capitalist development and ameliorate the destruction it causes. As Marx pointed out in his discussion of free trade, concentration and centralization brings capital closer to its its own destruction. It could be a close call, since global destruction of environmental factors may not even be repairable under socialism, but they certainly are not repairable under reduced technological regimes.

RS


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