Monday, October 20, 2008

Capitalism: war, waste and want

Socialists have long argued we live in a world of abundance, one which can meet the self-defined needs of every man, woman and child. What then are we to make of a recent New Scientist special report titled 'How our economy is killing the Earth'? Firstly, the term 'our economy' should be viewed in the same light as 'our country' or 'our war'. Capitalist economics sees human wants wants as unlimited, and abundance as impossible. According to the New Scientist, an increasing number of 'experts' (presumably no economists)
argue "..that personal carbon virtue and collective environmentalism are futile as long as our economic system is built on the assumption of growth. The science tells us that if we are serious about saving Earth, we must reshape our economy." Yes, we must not be misled into the dead end of reformism, green or otherwise, and instead replace the present economic system of production for profit with global Socialism - a world of free access.

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