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

Politicus E. epoliticus at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 15:36:50 PDT 2009


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



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