Re: Re: Back to the 21st Century,was Re:...Vulnerable Planet...

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> Lou says:
>
> >  >Peoria for the bulk of the population.) Yammer about the Aztecs or any
> >>other pre-capitalist society is about as useful as handing out _The Lord
> >>of the Rings_ in pamphlet form at factory gates.
> >>
> >>Carrol
> >
> >Is that what I am doing, yammering? Doug Henwood accused me of
> >anti-modernism of the unabomber kind. To answer him, I demonstrated that
> >Aztec Mexico was a better place to live for its average inhabitant than
> >Mexico City today.

Lou, even if I agreed with you (and I do partly) I would _still_
consider your posts on the Aztecs yammering. The question is how do we
_get_ to a place where it makes any difference. Write some more posts on
your theory of the Party -- those aren't yammering. Write some posts on
how we can convince people that they should mobilize to hamstring U.S.
participation in or incitement of NATO or UN peacekeeping. We need to
mobilize an army, not dream about how to save the earth a century or so
_after_ that army is mobilized.

> Aztec Mexico may have been a better place than Mexico City by some
> standards of measurement (e.g., air pollution), but I doubt that
> today's ordinary Mexicans, in or out of Mexico City, really agree
> with you.
>
> Yoshie