On Oct 10, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> one left demand should be stopping
> all U.S. aid of any sort to anyone. One responder argued against this on the
> ground that the climate crisis was the over-riding issue and that
> third-world nations would not be able to adopt a green program without aid
> from the U.S.
>
> This seems to me to include _both_ the error of Catastrophism as Doug
> describes it AND Doug's own error as I argued in my previous post.
>
> The Enemy is Capitalism, and the Final Goal remains the achievement of
> state power by the working class (i.e., democracy) by the overcoming of
> capitalism. We can and must fight for specific "green" actions, but we
> cannot forget that Capitalism is the Supdreme Enemy, and that any ultimate
> response to climate change will only be possible in a socialist (free)
> world.
Seems that providing the means to survive climate change would necessarily be a socialist investment.