[lbo-talk] Fear of nationalization sets in

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Feb 22 17:56:23 PST 2009


On Feb 21, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Eric Beck wrote:


> I took Eubulides to be ironic, but given that the whole point of this
> list over the last few weeks and months has been to give advice to
> capital and to pray for it to reconstitute itself on some more humane,
> socialistic level, I don't know what to think anymore. People on
> lbo-talk may scoff at the conservative idea that nationalization =
> socialism, but as far as I can tell that's exactly the politics that
> dominate here.

I really don't know what you're talking about here, but I do wonder what your position is. How do we get from the society we have to the one you want? Who will keep the electricity running? Will we have electricity? Do centralized generating plants just embody the crap hierarchies of capitalist society, so we should just replace them with rooftop solar panels made by small cooperative enterprises?

We are in the middle of an economic and financial crisis that gives us some opportunity. Tell those of us with blinkered imaginations how we could do it better.

Doug



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