On Nov 20, 2014, at 11:30 PM, Joseph Green via Marxism wrote: > Klein prettifies the carbon tax, and does not recognize it as > a market measure, no better than the rest of them;
This is the purest ultraleft idiocy. As I have pointed out--and as Green absurdly ignores--the capitalism system is not about to be overthrown by a proletarian revolution, not in less time than we have before the human environment is irrevocably destroyed. Our struggle therefore absolutely must center on demands for effective measures operative within the logic of the capitalist system. Effective carbon taxation is not merely "better"--it is the ONLY way to make the intensification of pollution so UNPROFITABLE that the capitalist market totally abandons it and is forced, by its own "logic," to recognize and act on the real, and ever-increasing, profitability of investment in the whole range of maturing carbon-eliminating energy technologies. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
