Comments on: The End of Socialism http://www.joabbess.com/2009/05/17/the-end-of-socialism/ Energy Change for Climate Control Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:58:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rory http://www.joabbess.com/2009/05/17/the-end-of-socialism/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Rory Sun, 17 May 2009 23:16:35 +0000 http://www.joabbess.com/?p=582#comment-36 Apologies. That should have read: "German ex-dissident Rudolf Bahro wrote convincingly of the need for eco-socialism." Apologies. That should have read: “German ex-dissident Rudolf Bahro wrote convincingly of the need for eco-socialism.”

]]> By: Rory http://www.joabbess.com/2009/05/17/the-end-of-socialism/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Rory Sun, 17 May 2009 14:58:20 +0000 http://www.joabbess.com/?p=582#comment-35 To equate Nu Labor with socialism takes an unbelievable stretch of the imagination. Even old Labour was hardly socialist: reformist yes, socialist no. This equation of Labour with socialism is much more akin to the American idea of anything being vaguely reformist to be socialist. Socialism means many things to many people. But whatever happens in the UK it will not mean the end of socialism in its many varieties. German ex-dissident wrote convincingly of the need for eco-socialism. That, I believe, is the way forward for those who see the urgent need to replace the destructiveness of capitalism with a system that respects the biosphere. To equate Nu Labor with socialism takes an unbelievable stretch of the imagination. Even old Labour was hardly socialist: reformist yes, socialist no.

This equation of Labour with socialism is much more akin to the American idea of anything being vaguely reformist to be socialist.

Socialism means many things to many people. But whatever happens in the UK it will not mean the end of socialism in its many varieties.

German ex-dissident wrote convincingly of the need for eco-socialism. That, I believe, is the way forward for those who see the urgent need to replace the destructiveness of capitalism with a system that respects the biosphere.

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