On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:50 AM, Tahir Wood wrote:
> Our empiricists don't get that because the imagination has been
> trained
> out of them.
Hmm, so not only do we have to adjust bourgeois accounting categories, we have to re-train our imaginations to see the crisis?
Poverty and other forms of social misery have been capital's constant companions from the first. I only have to walk out the door right here in a comfy neighborhood in Manhattan to see a shoeless guy poking around the trash for food. I doubt it's worse now than it was 100 years ago. The climate crisis is real, and doesn't require much imaginative training to see. But if we have to wait for socialist revolution to solve that problem, we're doomed.
Doug