Re: Current implications for South Africa

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Mark writes:

> This means that chronic energy crisis is
> certain to mutate into energy famine, cruelly frustrating any residual hopes
> entertained by the South African masses.
>
> The problem of debt, which you raise about Zim, is simply a red-herring. In
> context, debt, though not trivial, is symptomatic rather than causal. Your
> hopes about renewables are equally illusory.

What's the point of arguing for revolutionary socialism, if the
primary problem today is caused not by social relations (which can be
changed through the transition to socialism) but by dependence of
industrialization upon fossil fuels (which the transition to
socialism may not change & in fact may increase for the time being) &
if renewable energy sources are not practical solutions?  What's
exactly are you arguing for politically if not radical population
reduction a la Dave Foreman?  Global deindustrialization?

Yoshie