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Capitalism, Ecology, and Socialism

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Date:
Sunday, March 07, 2021
Time:
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Eugene E Ruyle
Email:
Phone:
510-332-3865
Location Details:
Zoom meeting. Log-in info will be posted by Friday on our website: !CSSMARX.ORG

Sun, Mar 7, 2021: 10:30 am to 2:30 pm Pacific Time
Capitalism, Ecology, and Socialism

Forest 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?

Our Spesker, ICSS Member Raj Sahai will explore ideas and invite discussion with the participants, in a work in-progress.

LOGIN INFORMATION
The 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.

Zoom meeting. Log-in info will be posted by Friday on our website: !CSSMARX.ORG
Added to the calendar on Mon, Mar 1, 2021 2:35PM
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