ravi wrote:
>
> On 1 May, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> > Jerry Monaco wrote:
> >>
> >> What in the world are you saying? What does this have to do with
> >> the question? Why are you saying this? The question was, questions
> >> that you have not answered:
> >
> > The question James is answering in the affirmative is "Can the human
> > species thrive while 6 billion of them drive luxury automobiles?" You
> > are contemptuous of human possibility for suggesting a negative
> > answer.
>
> Me too (contemptuous). The track record seems convincing enough,
> without need for projections. Also, I am interested in more than just
> the human species thriving. [clip]
Jerry I guess did not see that my tone was sarcastic. One really can't communicate tone in e-mail. James's idiotic query about who to slaughter stems from his assumption (he will not accept this as a fair summary) that the only purpose of socialism is to make the mad capitalist proliferation of infinite goodies available to all 6billion, 10 billion, however many. Production must be infinite and the earth must support that infinity.
I seldom read the whole of Heartfield's posts, or even the whole of what other posters post. His assumptions are too detached from reality to make his deductions from them of interest.
Carrol