RE: Troubles of the World

You 're right, they need to re-focus.
 I believe Radical Ecocentrism should be the grand strategy.

 Juan Manuel Ghersinich


----- Original Message -----
From: <wwagar@binghamton.edu>
To: <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 8:51 PM
Subject: Troubles of the World


>
>
> Dear List,
>
> Sorry, but we need to re-focus.  We all know that the great issue
> facing humankind in the 21st Century is not the rights of frozen embryos
> or the genocide in Iraq or the crap dispensed by Madeline Albright or NATO
> bullshit about Kosovo or whatever.  The problem is that most of the
> wealth and power in the modern world-system is wielded by the 20% of the
> world's people who live in the "advanced" countries, and that most of
> their wealth and power is in turn concentrated in the top 5% of the people
> in the top 20%.
>
> The only sane response to this conundrum, I maintain, is global
> revolutionary politics.  I'm not particularly fastidious about whether the
> model is Leninist, Trotskyist, or (Michael) Harrisonian.  When in reason's
> name are we going to mount a concerted, effective, worldwide response?
>
> So forget, if you can, about the details.  The details are
> obvious.  What's lacking is the grand strategy.
>
> In comradeship,
>
> Warren
>
>