[lbo-talk] Soros, Volcker, Depression, Nationalization

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Sun Feb 22 16:36:02 PST 2009


On Sun, February 22, 2009 4:12 pm, turbulo at aol.com wrote:


> I haven't had a chance to read David Harvey's piece yet, but I did
> hear him last Monday night at the Brecht Forum in NYC. His reasoning went
> as follows: socialism is impossible at present. Therefore the left should
> aim to build a saner, greener capitalism, which would include such things
> as "a new design for urban living" to replace the existing grid of
> highways, suburbs and exurbs. This would require big investments in mass
> transit, among other things. Partial nationalizations, he said, might also
> be in order.

If we're going to have a revolution, we're going to need some snappy slogans. How about:

"One, two, many developmental states..."

"One, two, many sovereign wealth funds..."

"Digital commonists [sic] of the world, unite!"

-- DRR



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