[lbo-talk] a post-capitalist future

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Mar 14 18:51:18 PDT 2009


On Mar 14, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote:


> nd frankly it's difficult to see how the manufacturing
> of things like computers or refrigerators can be so organized.
> Of those anarchists who have been willing to confront this issue,
> a fair number of them are avowedly hostile towards industrial
> society, although it's hard to see how, if we reversed the
> Industrial Revolution, we could hope to sustain the six
> billion or so human beings that populate this planet.

At least the anarchists who want to chuck industrial civilization are honest. Many of the others just don't want to answer. But of the first group, few will admit to the kind of population shrinkage that would be necessary to realize their vision. There's Dave Foreman, but I don't think he's a popular model.

Doug



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