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DESCRIPTION:Sun, Mar  7, 2021: 10:30 am to 2:30 pm Pacific Time\nCapitalism, Ecology, 
 and Socialism\n\nForest fires in California, thawing of ice in the arctic, 
 Glacier melting in The Himalayas, floods and bitter cold in Texas; and the 
 Covid pandemic are all tied to the global warming from cumulative effects 
 of capitalist commodity production over the past 200 years. Air pollution 
 in much of world has worsened. Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and 
 China taking the role of a biggest commodity producer for the world; other 
 than tiny Cuba, there is no model of development that does not contribute 
 to worsening of the ecological crisis all over the world. Class 
 differentiation is leading to right-wing populism, threatening social peace 
 in many countries. The internal contradictions of capital are extreme. To 
 survive, capitalism requires even more exploitation of natural resources 
 and human beings of the world, witness the farmers fighting capitalist 
 predation laws in India. Result of all this is more pollution of air, sea 
 and land on a scale that is undermining the very basis of healthy human 
 existence on earth. Can the alienated individualism and consumerist way of 
 life created by late stage capitalism be ended by a new socialist 
 revolution? Can a new socialism build a healthy materially adequate society 
 for all human beings which lives in balance with Nature? \n\nOur Spesker, 
 ICSS Member Raj Sahai will explore ideas and invite discussion with the 
 participants, in a work in-progress. \n\nLOGIN INFORMATION\nThe meeting 
 will be opened up, as usual, at 10:15 for anyone to join and discuss 
 technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc. We Intend to 
 start the presentation as close to 10:30 am as possible. The program (and 
 recording) will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room will remain open for 
 informal discussion.\n\nZoom meeting. Log-in info will be posted by Friday 
 on our website: !CSSMARX.ORG\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/01/18840401.php
SUMMARY:Capitalism, Ecology, and Socialism
LOCATION:Zoom meeting. Log-in info will be posted by Friday on our website: 
 !CSSMARX.ORG
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/01/18840401.php
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