Cars and Factory Work (was Cars and Victorians)

[Jim heartfield]

In message <3.0.1.32.19980507085648.01174ca4 at popserver.panix.com>, Louis
Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes
>A worldwide socialist planning board would
>calculate how many cars would be ecologically sustainable and we would be
>entitled to a certain number of credit miles that you would use annually
>until they were exhausted. 
You want to convene an international conference to watch Russ's
milometer? Louis' version of socialism seems to mean more traffic cops
studiously sifting the difference between Louis' saintly, white-haired
mother and 
>bored teenagers driving up and down the freeways
God help any such teenage rebels when
>For the urban population, cars would be available for pleasure but on a
>strictly rationed basis. 
In the second world war, so my father tells me, they used to say 'Is
your journey really necessary?'
-- 
Jim heartfield