[p2p-research] Fwd: EcoRev' 33 - Editorial "Thinking after capitalism with André Gorz"

[Ryan Lanham]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Therefore, the present situation is not ineluctable, nor a fatality.
> Solutions do exist to leave capitalism behind in a civilized manner –
> otherwise what will eventually prevail is the savage solution of War. The
> civilized solutions are to be found in the framework of a new paradigm.
> These are linked to the implementation of a voluntarist policy dealing with
> the impact of greenhouse gas emissions, through drastic decisions made in a
> democratic way.
>

Good diagnosis...hopelessly antiquated solutions.  It is neither through
radical reductions and government and growth in markets nor is it through
some rebirthing of all the deleterious socialist models of the past that the
future will be born.

I am so disappointed to read the Europeans.  The seem lost in the 19th
century.  I hope that wonderful continent wakes up to the future rather than
pining so pitifully for the past.
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