James Farmelant wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> I think you miss the point of both the post that I
> forwarded to this list as well as the point that
> Carrol has been attempting to make here for some time
> now. And that is that we cannot expect to see such
> problems the energy crisis, global warming, or ecocide
> dealt with in a progressive manner unless there is
> in place a mass movement that is dedicated to resisting
> the ruling classes. And such a movement is most likely
> to appear under conditions of relative economic
> prosperity when it possible for workers to resist
> capital from a relatively favorable position.
This is just daydreaming. Capitalism has entered its most serious crisis.
Nothing in history prepares it or us for what is about to happen, and is
already happening. Imagine the worst thing that can happen, imagine the most
grievous loss you might know, imagine the face of the one you love best, and
understand that you have *already* lost it and lost them.
Generations of workers + peasants knew such loss, in war and revolution
throughout the last century. But at least they also knew there would be
people left behind who could celebrate their lives and deeds in word and
song. Now understand that even *that* is a forlorn hope; the planet is
burning. There will be no one left. This is now not just thinkable (not
*even* thinkable), it is an attestable scientific probability, and you above
all know this. Now tell me, in what dreamworld do you wait for the
reappearance of naive hopefulness and wishful thinking on a mass scale, ie,
for the rebirth of the mass movements of the past, for the millions of
lonely footfalls which echo through our ghostly history like your own dying
heartbeat?
> we can
> pretty much guarantee that when problems like the energy
> crisis, global warming, and/or ecocide come to a head,
> it will be our bourgeois ruling classes that will
> dictate how these problems will be handled,
But *they* are doomed too, don't you get it? What *do* you think runaway
warming means? What *do* you think it means that, in my adult lifetime,
since around 1970, 30% of the planetary biosphere has been wrecked: ie, 1%
per annum?
Open your eyes and look up, look overhead. The atmosphere is six miles
thick. Above that is unknowing emptiness. That is as far as, say, from
Trafalgar Square to where I live in east London. That's all there is, and
we've wrecked it.
Mark
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