>billbartlett at dodo.com.au wrote:
>
>> Chuck's rants against modern industrial means of production are
>>intrinsically reactionary and anti-social. Such deranged rhetoric
>>should probably be criminalised, their authors thrown in a jail,
>>along with other potential war criminals. The man is dangerous.
>>Like I say, a potential Pol Pot.
>>
>
>I'm only making arguments that have been printed in the Left press for the
>past 40 years. Just read the latest sicence news in any newspaper and
>you'll see plenty of reasons why industrial society as it is presently
>constituted is unsustainable and ruining the planet. And as Tom says, what
>right do you have to force people in the Global South to toil away to
>support your comfortable high-tech lifestyle.
>
>Do any of you who purport to speak for "the workers" understand what
>workers in the Global South actually do?
Lots of them toil from dawn to dusk and die young of easily curable diseases. I bet lots of them wouldn't sign on to your utopia either.
Doug