- Capitalism and Alternatives -

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In Reply to: If we don't look out, it possibly can. posted by Simon Kongshoj on December 25, 1997 at 00:46:39:

Kongshoj: I believe that if we wish to see an end to the capitalist system and all its problems and unbalances, it would be more important to formulate the system that should succeed it and work for that end rather than making prophecies about how capitalism will kill itself. You see, if nothing is actually done about it, I don't think it will.

SDF: Sure, no alternative to capitalist practices will emerge if it isn't designed beforehand. But to say that capitalism will overcome its resource and waste challenges and last forever if it's not challenged by a labor movement, this should give the capitalists and their sycophants great cause for happiness. They appear to be freaking out, right now, about global warming, which provoked reactions like this, complaints that Kyoto will end capitalism as we know it, as well as antiestablishment reactions like this, that Kyoto was a photo-op which will change little.

SDF: It is quite conceivable that capitalism will develop a sort of eco-fascism as it attempts to preserve the profit schemes by keeping them operating with the limit of the ecology. Today (12/29) it was reported in the this page and call me in the morning.

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