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This article is entirely worthy of a liberal like its Greenpeace author. Ken Ward writes: "If Trump withdraws from the Paris agreement, at least we will have clarity instead of hope." Shades of the old Stalinist view "after Hitler then us"! On this basis, Ward should support Trump's deportations of undocumented immigrants and his stepped-up bombing campaign in Syria. Why not? The worse it gets, the better it gets according to Ward. And what conclusion does Ward draw? "*the shock and rethinking it will cause in some circles just might precipitate political and cultural changes we need to stave off climate cataclysm.*" Evidently this does not include his circle, since his conclusion is that we must turn more to the courts and to individual actions of civil disobedience. Like all liberals, Ward is completely blind to class interests, class conflict and class struggle. History shows that the overthrow of bourgeois democracy leads not to disillusionment in that form of capitalist government, but just the opposite - *increased* illusion in it. It will be the same for the Paris Climate Accord. Not only that, but increased illusions in the liberals and the Democratic Party. But what is history to liberals like Ken Ward? John Reimann -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
