Rob wrote:
> Then he
> ends his thoroughly enlightening, thoroughly well written, thoroughly
> researched and thoroughly comprehensive book with a prescription for market
> socialism in light of the notion that 'a future society has to emerge out of
> this one, on the basis of experimentation and struggle'.
"Has to" emerge? Who says human society *has to* end in anything?
Unfortunately, it won't be utopian dreamers of any stripe who decide how it
has to end, but Mother Nature, unless we put a stop to the capitalist system.
If you want to prevent humankind being wiped off the planet like dogshit off a
shoe, it might be better to forget about 'experiments' and get real. I've just
been taken somewhat unwillingly to see a film called 'Chocolat' starring
Juliet Binoche. This also involved experiments in social engineering, of
similar realism, but at least it was (as it happened) fun to watch.
Dunno what kind of experimentation are we talking about here, or how it might
stave off climate change, fossil depletion etc, but I do know that no-one has
ever died at the barricades for 'market socialism' (oxymoron). This kind of
thing does not begin to address the scale of the problem or the scale of
political and social mobilisation needed simply for humankind to survive.
Mark
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