[lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC

tfast tfast at yorku.ca
Sat Apr 7 19:29:31 PDT 2007


Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC


>
> On Apr 6, 2007, at 6:00 PM, tfast wrote:
>
> > Yah and if you think that solving the problem will not entail a
> > massive
> > collective (legislative) repression of capitalist forms of
> > inefficiency and
> > waste you are also living in dream world.
>
> If you're saying that capital won't do it through the wondrous
> mechanism of the self-regulating market but needs the state to force
> the issue, I'd say yes, absolutely. If you're saying that won't
> happen, I think you're probably wrong. I didn't think that a year
> ago, but I do now.
>
> Doug

I absolutely think it is going to happen and that is why the right is so frightened by the environment: It puts the social regulation of capitalism back on the political agenda with an inevitability.



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