LET US all remember Rosa Luxembourg's very prescient prediction --- SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM --
I fear the coming environmental crises will tip the scales towards militaristic authoritarianism --- PERHAPS, the Chinese version of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" will evolve into a less authoritarian version as it copes with the environmental challenges -- It would be "nice" to imagine that the US democratic forms will "hold" as they did with the New Deal (which remember kept Jim Crow completely undisturbed except for the ability of many Southern black to physically escape and the different levels of discrimination in the North allowed them to gain some political muscle) --- but I unfortunately have my doubts (which doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and refrain from attempting to protect whatever slivers of "democracy" still exist ...) Brazil,India, South Africa --- all have "potential" for coming up with their own versions of how to cope --- I fear the smaller less "rich" countries will really suffer --- Some of the "predictions" in Kim Stanley Robinson's dystopian novel THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE are very positive but remember that's a work of the imagination --- even though I gather all the "science" in it is real ... Here's to none of us giving up on the struggle. On Fri, Jan 2, 2026 at 8:13 PM Marv Gandall via groups.io <marvgand2= [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2026 at 02:23 PM, Charles wrote: > > ...a capitalism that can no longer tolerate reform > > Yes, assuming the system is no longer as economically and politically > resilient as it has been over the past two centuries and, having exhausted > its capacity for reform, is poised to collapse. > _._,_._,_ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39987): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39987 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117037934/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
