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  Thank you - We need rational Socialism - Keynesian

  Jason and Bart, I very much enjoyed these posts, and I am glad you can recognize and appreciate the difference.

  The major problem with anti-capitalist ideology is that is is utopian, and requires rigid and inflexible ideologies, such as Anarchism or Communism. People have to accept both the bullshit and the rhetorical bluster (bad), alongside the reallocation of power and resources (good).

  But regulated Keynesian economics, limited socialism, was always successful. It was only the Plutocrats who wanted more and more and more wealth who debased it, and ultimately unravelled it.

  We don't need ideology to reform the economic system, we need practicality. Climate change and resource depletion are serious enough problems to conquer, and addressing them can both create jobs and save the planet, and perhaps even lead to sustainable economic health (notice, I did not say growth...growth is a metric which has been obfuscated, and is predicated on the most rich and powerful growing continually more so). We need social services and infrastructure, not wars and luxury ammenities. And one does not have to buy all the Marxist palaver to enact it.

  Read Derrick Jensen's Endgame. It's highly provocative. Also David Korten's The Great Turning.

  Charles Shaw Author/Activist Chicago, IL

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  Good Work David

  You can bring the horses (or, sheep, as the case may be) to water...

  Remember the allegory of the Ant and the Grasshopper...

  Winter is coming.

  Charles Shaw Author/Activist Chicago, IL

  On Kyle Smith's review of An Inconvenient Truth posted 3 years, 5 months ago 28 Responses