RE: RE: Re: Re: Re: Question for Lefties, and Left Green Synthesis

2000-12-16 Thread Brian Milani
Hello Ian, I do know Willem Vanderburg, but I know his own teacher Ursula Franklin a bit better. I think she’s more sympathetic to my ideas than Prof. Vanderburg, at least enough to write an endorsement for my book. I think I’m a bit more Marxist than either, with my focus on

RE: RE: Re: Re: Question for Lefties, and Left Green Synthesis

2000-12-15 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
I definitely don’t mean post-technological. By postindustrial, I mean possibilities created by the industrialization of culture to replace physical resources and cog-labour (the key elements of classical industrial development) with human creativity. *** Don't we have too much

RE: Re: Re: Question for Lefties, and Left Green Synthesis

2000-12-14 Thread Brian Milani
This discussion of “what is capitalism?,” it seems to me, has great relevance for any real left-green synthesis. Most of the left is oblivious to the existence of postindustrial productive forces geared to qualitative development, and the fact that capitalism is absolutely incompatible

RE: Re: Question for Lefties, and Left Green Synthesis

2000-12-13 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
This discussion of “what is capitalism?,” it seems to me, has great relevance for any real left-green synthesis. Most of the left is oblivious to the existence of postindustrial productive forces geared to qualitative development, and the fact that capitalism is absolutely incompatible