But that does not mean that certain form of populist criticism of modern technologies - shared by the left and the right alike - is not hysterical and reactionary or "catonist" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catonism as Barrington Moore would say. The essence of catonism is the rejection of modern technologies and organization of production in favor of mythologized "quaint" bucolic images of agrarian or artisan economy. You cannot deny that many lefties subscribe to this nonsense.
Wojtek
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The problem with this sky is falling claim is that when it doesn't
happen the left looks silly. There was/is so much nonsense spun
around the negative health impacts on people from GMO by those on the
progressive side that they all look like uneducated boobs.
The reasoning that it doesn't improve yields or meet human needs is all true, but how does that make it unique under capitalism?
Brad