Re: Centripetal & Holograhpic models

Dear Warren:
In your answer to RKM you mention as the main goal:
A COHERENT MOVEMENT TO BUILD AN EARTH-CONSERVING, JUSTICE-DEALING WORLD
CIVILIZATION. 
You both agree that Capitalism cannot be reformed and also seem no to favor
traditional Marxism, but do not clearly indicate what alternative you have
in mind.
This omission is crucial, because in our time no movement can be
successful, that does no try to address the immense problems facing
humanity in the near future:

HOW TO SATISFY THE DEMANDS OF A POPULATION GROWING EXPONENTIALLT WITH A
FINITE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES.
3. Besides this main problem, there are quite a few more, that are almost
equally important; such as to devise programs that REALLY help developing
nations to slowly catch up with the rest of the world, to assuage the
business cycle through international Keynesianism or how to finance
government programs needed to find work for the millions of people that
will lose their jobs because of advancing automation. 

To face this challenge we need:
1. An effective organization of the means of production, capable of
satisfying the basic means of existing populations and
2. Effective ways of convincing humanity of the need for stopping and, if
possible, reversing the population growth, which threatens the carrying
capacity of our planet.

It should be obvious, that merely rallying the many different sectors who
protest against policies of the WTO cannot achieve your goals and at the
same time take on so many and so difficult tasks. For this purpose we need
ways of organizing production, which avoid the grave shortcomings of both
present day neo-liberal, laissez faire Capitalism and of Soviet-style
Central planning and Party dictatorship and we do not have a lot of time
for experimenting with untried new ideas.
 
I personally believe that there are societies that have already started to
solve at least some of the mentioned problems. They did it coming from both
sides and through combining the best features of both systems. They are:
1. Scandinavian countries that have REFORMED CAPITALISM and distribute
their considerable wealth in reasonably equitable ways, without losing
their productivity, based on private property and initiative.
2. Cuba which has REFORMED SOCIALISM, maintaining a high degree of equality
and many important Social Services, but also increasing its output and
industrial productivity through inviting capitalist investment in several
important sectors of their economy.

Both models need a lot of additional adjustments, in order to overcome the
many grave problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century; but they
prove that
REFORMS ARE VIABLE AND ARE OUR ONLY HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE.

Regards         Paul Riesz