"post-leftism"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Aug 16 07:13:58 PDT 2002


Chuck0 wrote:


>We wouldn't be able to build new computers in a post-revolutionary
>anarchist society. Computer production requires a highly capitalized,
>global, command and control capitalist system.

Same with most other complex industrial products, and since most services depend on complex industrial products, you're basically saying that a post-revo anarchist socieety would be neo-primitivist to some degree. And since cities depend on complex goods and services and supply chains, it means some kind of move back to the land. And since you couldn't support the present population with a pre-industrial economy it means some kind of Malthusian shrinkage. I'd always suspected all this, but thanks for confirming it.

Doug



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