[lbo-talk] global warming: was: ciao, GM & Chrysler

[Politicus E.]

Hello.  With respect to the remark about the demise of civilization by
Glazer, I defer to Cesaire's "Discourse of Colonialism."  With respect
to Sokolowski, his remarks do not address the specific issue I had
raised.  Sokolowski will recall that I had criticized the political
aspect of declaring the equivalence between the military-industrial
complex, the prison-industrial complex, and the automobile industry.
Sokolowski's tangentially enters into some discussion of environmental
problems under the now extinct "actually existing socialisms."  I am
not compelled to engage in such a conversation.

But I cannot resist a comment about the anachronism of Gandhian
ideology.  Given that one half of my family is South Asian, I have
mostly been bemused that this anachronism persists among certain
sectors of the Western Left while its importance has diminished into
obscurity in India.  Mainly, however, I am annoyed that there is a
neglect of the fact that Gandhian ideology entailed a collaboration
with imperialism, as most folk that are familiar with Indian
nationalism will readily affirm.  This tendency seems to continue in
the US today.

Moreover, I must distance myself from the statement that "capitalism
in general" is not responsible for its "worst excesses."

The only statements with which I agree is "I think that US unions dug
itself into a hole by renouncing socialism and political reforms in
general, and endorsed capitalism in providing benefits to their
members, but not working class as a whole" but with the caveat that
this was not the only important consideration.

epoliticus