OTHER FEATURES OF NEW LEFT PROJECT
1) SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The first reply to my thoughts was Barry Brooks' note.He said:" 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".
Third world needs to consume more electricity, cement,
food,medicines,computers,teeth brush ext. This is inevitable,and ,I
agree with, the consumer economy is unsustainable.So,we need a solution
which consider both side of the problem.Maybe this is a clue for such a
solution: if north continue to eat like today ,and if south continue to
increase like today ,we cannot survive. This is not a pessimistic
prediction. Put aside some reports which today seems too pessimistic
like the reports of Roma Club, every serious text ( for example annual
reports of Worldwatch institute) have accepted this. Here we comes the
problem of birth rate control. A problem which traditional left dislike.
We have witnessed thousands of tragedy everyday.Dying bodies in
Africa..So weak to fight with mosqitoues attack their bodies...Selling
bodies in Tailand, little girls bodies..ext.,ext....And traditional
leftist song: " poor people..imperialism and capitalism must be
abolished. This is their liberation". Correct,but not correspond these
peoples realities,not remedy for them..New left must have a population
policy. I think there must be some ,for example marxian demographers
somewhere..but we cannot hear them. My idea: birth control by
informing,convincing and providin the means. If you think that this is
already applied,this means you are under demonstration effect. Today's
states and some other organisations have applied this ,but this is very
ineffective. We need a real, big and effective birth control campaign.
in passing a note: maybe such a control campaign leads to rising wages
as a byproduct (!). They are always need a reserve army. A real and
serious birth control campaign ( permanent and woldwide) can hit this
target.
Other side: north's eating problem. This isnot a problem for south and
the planet,but a problem for themselves. Heart attacks, gut disease
ext...anyway, I think my project can help to solve this problem.
Tecchnological leap forward in south,then falling technological rent for
north, that is falling incomes,then less eating. So simple. Too simple ?
I don't think so.