Re: a Marxist view of PoTH

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 09:52:07 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > this guy gets it right
 > 
 > https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/beyond-the-uproar-over-planet-of-humans/

Yeah.

It is pretty weird that the bet between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich went
sour since it's obvious that Paul Ehrlich was right in the end.  The real
issue is not whether the price of a commodity goes up or down, but whether
there is a sudden "crisis" in the price of the commodity.  This is
something that most models don't account for.

The very fact that we now need 12 Earths to sustain the current human
population means that we are all living on borrowed time and the shit will
hit the fan at some point.  This coronavirus thing has showed just a small
glimpse into that shit.

Not sure how we can tease apart the ideology that bolsters the capitalist
system.  It would probably first require tamping down the dominance
paradigm.  Even something as affective as this coronavirus is not going to
change this; in fact, it may just make authoritarian systems and the
global capitalist structure stronger.