Re: [A-List] Fwd: Globalisation and revolution in the XXIst century

["Bob Enoch" <newtonenoch@xxxxxxxx>]

Tom writes: (amongst other things)


"...In terms of the reality of the future, I wonder as usual if the battle I
 must envision for us environmental activists is to simply continue the
 struggle under the new "system of federated Socialist Republics" exactly as
 it has been joined as a battle under the current system of Capitalist
rapers
 of the earth."

 What's the difference?

 tom
 (apparently missing some fundamental point, once again)


 Maybe we could agree that the pre-condition for any hopes at all for a
livable planet is the
defeat of the Empire.....
This, for example,would reduce the current dead flat certainty of
environmental holocaust
to a mere overwhelming probability.
You might, as I in my socialist simplicity do, take some comfort in the
record of Cuba, but the real hope lies in the notion of production for use,
not profit.
The other canard in Marten's formula lies in his hazy description of the
"new world" polity....
with its unmistakable sub-text of "trust the Party", and "we know what the
masses need".
Cold comfort indeed, especially when combined with some nice quotes from
Vyshinsky....
But it will take us all to win the preconditions for survival; reds, greens,
anarchists, even the occasional national bourgeois-democrat.

So; I will help you convince the comrades that the primary contradiction is
between Imperialism and the eco-system, if you help me convince the Greens
that reforming capital is a non-starter.
Then, after the revolution, we can both join the new "left opposition", and
continue the struggle!

May we all, together with our hopes and dreams, survive the coming year(s).

Best wishes,  Bob