If you have recently stumbled upon this blog, then you must have realized that you have fallen into lair of an avowed socialist! I don't hide my distaste for the capitalist system. I find it systemically immoral and, in the hands of ruthless individuals and corporations, it is downright unethical and immoral!
I favor a more eco-socialist approach -- one that is built upon the edifice of sustainability, community and genuine democracy. Such a system would, for example, promote union rights and worker cooperatives. The means of production would be held in common. Such a system would see war and violence as anathema to a civilized society and would employ both ONLY in those rare circumstances when absolutely everything else has been tried and had not worked.
But I don't want you to think that I believe an eco-socialist approach would be perfect. Far from it. Any system employed by ego-driven human desire is bound to be problematic. No matter how egalitarian a nation or society strives to be, there will always be those who figure out ways to game the system. An eco-socialist approach to collective human relationships would in no way be immune.
For my part, I simply see eco-socialism as the next logical step along the continuum of the way humans orient society. As soon as it becomes the status quo -- the establishment -- new thinkers will envision something that exceeds it by tenfold. The socialists will then turn into the conservative reactionaries (like today's Tea Party) who try to utilize the power they possess to beat back the new methodology.
I believe it will always be this way. We humans have a propensity to resist progress.
I favor a more eco-socialist approach -- one that is built upon the edifice of sustainability, community and genuine democracy. Such a system would, for example, promote union rights and worker cooperatives. The means of production would be held in common. Such a system would see war and violence as anathema to a civilized society and would employ both ONLY in those rare circumstances when absolutely everything else has been tried and had not worked.
But I don't want you to think that I believe an eco-socialist approach would be perfect. Far from it. Any system employed by ego-driven human desire is bound to be problematic. No matter how egalitarian a nation or society strives to be, there will always be those who figure out ways to game the system. An eco-socialist approach to collective human relationships would in no way be immune.
For my part, I simply see eco-socialism as the next logical step along the continuum of the way humans orient society. As soon as it becomes the status quo -- the establishment -- new thinkers will envision something that exceeds it by tenfold. The socialists will then turn into the conservative reactionaries (like today's Tea Party) who try to utilize the power they possess to beat back the new methodology.
I believe it will always be this way. We humans have a propensity to resist progress.
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