Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System and National Emissions of]

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug:
>Does the revo also mean there won't be modern transportation,
>chemical fertilizers, mechnized plowing and reaping, etc.? Then
>there's truly no way to sustain a world population of more than, say,
>a billion people, maybe fewer - meaning that at least 80% of us have
>to go.

You don't seem to be aware that smaller farms are more productive than
large agribusiness type concerns. Can I refer you to the special MR issue
on agriculture from a couple of years ago co-edited by Fred Magdoff and
John Foster? I am sure you would find it most edifying.

>Where are the Marxists?

They are over on the Marxism list where they belong.

>On this sort of thing I'm with thumb-up-the-ass Ernest Mandel, who
>had this to say in Late Capitalism:

Well, at least Ernest was a revolutionary socialist, even if he hadn't give
ecology the full attention it deserved. We need more people like him
nowadays, if you gather my drift.

Louis Proyect
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