>What is the alternative? Keeping industrial society with it inequalities
>chugging along with a class of enlightened socialist managers?
>
>How are you going to coerce people in the Global South into sending you
>resources to keep your little techno-utopia going? Socialist imperialism?
>
>Oh yeah, I remember, the Soviet model. It's a wonderful thing that they
>were able to have an industrial society with a space program and not have
>ANY envrionmental effects.
For someone who wants a wholesale social transformation, you're not thinking very expansively. "Industrial society" requires inequalities, and the only way to a more egalitarian society is to de-industrialize? Institutions can't be run by and for workers and the broader society, but only by managers, so we have to scrap institutions? Industrialization can't raise the living standard of people in the Global South? International trade must be imperialist? The only form of socialism possible is Soviet socialism?
You remind me of the reviewer who thought I should have called Wall Street The Road To Pynonyang instead. Only he was a business editor at the LA Times, not a prominent anarchist.
Doug