This is exactly why I attack “climate change”, ie, the notion that every change in the weather is caused by Mankind’s release of CO2, primarily from fossil fueled vehicles, from a political position, with a smattering of science and data: because the issue is primarily political, pushed by hardcore leftists to enact a hardcore leftist political system
Not even climate change will kill off capitalism
As long as the conditions for investment and profit remain, the system will adapt. Which is why we need a revolution
Arguably the single most important mistake the revolutionary movements of the 60s and 70s made was to overlook the resilience of capitalism. The idea – catastrophism, as it is often called – that the system was going to crumble under the pressure of its own contradictions, that the bourgeoisie produces its own “gravediggers” (as Marx and Engels put it in the Communist Manifesto) has been disproved. When the rate of profit started showing signs of decline in the first half of the 70s, the redistributive policies implemented after the second world war were terminated and the neoliberal revolution was launched.
Interestingly, many of those fighting the system were pushing for less government. They said to not trust the government, to not trust anyone over 30. To get government out of our lives. Freedom. Love. (along with other notions). Today’s fools are pushing for more and more Big Government, with more intrusion into our personal lives, and more government control over Other People’s lives. These Progressive wankers always think that the rules will never affect themselves.
Anyhow, after bashing capitalism and extolling Marxism/Progressivism for the rest of the article, we end with
Nothing in the system’s logic will make it go away. A world of environmental desolation and conflict will work for capitalism, as long as the conditions for investment and profit are guaranteed. And, for this, good old finance and the military are ready to serve. Building a revolutionary movement that will put a stop to this insane logic is therefore not optional. Because, if the system can survive, it doesn’t mean that lives worth living will.
At least Razmig Keucheyan has the honesty to tell us what the true goal of the climate change movement is. And, from the comments
As to environmental ruin, I urge you to look at such paradises of Marxist environmental love as East Germany and Ukraine.
And Russia and it’s previous satellite nations. How’s China doing? And then there’s North Korea, which has significant environmental degradation, to go with their dearth of power, food, and modern living conditions.
