On 10/8/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/7/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3. With the exception of people like James Heartfiled, very few
> leftists today express the kind of optimistic faith in
> industrialization untempered by environmentalism that socialists
> before Chernobyl could entertain.
I don't think I've ever known any socialists who weren't
environmentalists (except perhaps those in the CPUSA).
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Jim Devine / "it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at
present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists,
ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it
arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict
with the powers that be." -- KM
Well, you are a boomer. By the time you came of age, optimistic faith
in industrialization had already faded among leftists.
--
Yoshie
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