Re: living people's concrete problems

Sat, 18 Jul 1998 20:23:35 -0700
Barry Brooks (durable@earthlink.net)

Ahmet Çakmak,

I like your unusual perspective.

>The aim of the radical left is to abolish exploitation at the level
>of states,classes,races,genders,sexes ext.But this only a long run
>goal.
>radical left has no theories and policies for short term.

Since the word "radical" is related to the the word "root" we could say that
anyone wanting significant change of any kind might be called a radical.

Today, among the world elite radicalism is growing. The conflict between
policies
to stimulate the economy and the need to conserve resources and reduce
pollution
naturally leads many thinkers to consider fundamental changes.

The policy of unending growth in the scale of human consumption portends a
disaster far greater than mere exploitation. The survival of the world's
population is threated by the wage system because the use of the our excess
productive capacity requires the waste of resources. The consumer economy is
unsustainable.

The left has allways agreed with the capitalists. They both want full
employment. They both want to exploit the planet. They both assume we have a
labor shortage and a resource surplus. To merely question that is radical.

Barry Brooks