C. Proyect,
This post is interesting but it contains the same flaw all your posts
do on this subject. You are confusing industrialization with capitalist
property relations. Furthermore, your conclusions always imply the same
solution: that the only way to preserve the globe is for an enlightened
bureaucracy to take over. This is simply a discredited notion for very good
reasons.
The race for socialists is to find a faster, more financially sound,
and more personally liberating mode of industrial development. That will not
solve all the problems and contradictions of political economy
simultaneously, but so what? It will provide the industrial development that
is desperately needed, undermine the monopoly on capital that capitalists
enjoy and hopefully give more working people real ownership rights over
the means of production. I'll take that and I have a feeling it would be
popular.
However, this business of drawing a line in the ecological sand
and trying to build a wall around the peasantry is simply doomed.
peace
