Re: [Marxism] Ecological revolution

["Paul H. Dillon" <illonph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The question of scale seems implicit in Foster's analyses.  Nowhere, if not
on this list, has the industrial world built on coal and oil been descried
as non-sustainable, its demise imminent.  This is one of  Foster's main
points.  If this globalized system of production, a natural consequence of
the functioning of the capitalist mode,  isn't sustainable, what would a
sustainable one look like?

It isn't Utopian to point out that for a wide variety of reasons, regional
sustainability (self-provisioning) for many basic necessities whose
consumption now depends upon a large dose of petroleum, either in
fertilizers or transportation,  will be a part of  any form of sustainable
economic organization . A change in technology, eg, perfection of controlled
fusion, would of course change this..

 Would the political form such a decentralized economy take be amenable to
a centralist political system.  Not from a Marxist theoretical perspective,
in which the economic relations determine the political organization.
However, this doesn't necessarily imply that the resulting political system
would be Mondragon style cooperatives.

Paul Dillon


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