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Reforming capitalism : Comments
By Liz Ross, published 4/12/2008It is possible that capitalism can spend its way out of a planetary meltdown, but what will be the final cost to humanity of its survival?
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I shouldn't prod the SA guys too much - part of their hearts and part of their heads are in the right place. The rest is mysterious: are they really pushing truly "socialist", social-democratic, anarcho-syndicalist, libertarian socialist, or just green-feudalist society? Going by rougey's predictably Malthusian filth and its reptilian eugenics poison, I'd say the last few ideologies seem more apt to describe this latest SA contribution. I avoid playing any historical-ideological pun on "SA" itself; suffice to say that they'd need an "SS" to enforce their draconian green vision.
This planet can support all its people in comfort and technological sophistication, provided it lets its free-trade schysters go bankrupt (or to prison) and reverts to popular state sovereignty taking care of its people. Protectionism, state-controlled capital and credit, international regulation of trade on sound "other's benefit" legal principle. All to realize humanity's potential.
Carbon dioxide's good too, always has been - helps the plants, forests and agriculture. We need more. And the imperialist free-trade parasites want instead a "carbon trading system" or fart taxes, all to create another fictitious and disastrous monetarist bubble to keep their dysfunctional rubbish alive!