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"fettered" capital has a long history of ecological disasters too... https://socialist-alliance.org/alliance-voices/ecological-disaster-was-ussr-0 https://soci
by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
"fettered" capital has a long history of ecological disasters too...
https://socialist-alliance.org/alliance-voices/ecological-disaster-was-ussr-0 https://socialist-alliance.org/alliance-voices/ecological-di...
In fact the above link doesn't even mention the whaling atrocity:
https://earthtrust.org/savethewhalesintl/homepage/busting-pirate-whalers/ https://earthtrust.org/savethewhalesintl/homepage/busting-pi...
My point being - clearly capitalism isn't the cause of ecological ruin.
- InitialLastName 6y agoPretending that the only options are two extreme ends of a solution scale isn't operating in good faith. Clearly, capitalism isn't the only possible cause of ecological ruin. In this case, however, it appears to be allowing _everyone involved_ to shirk the responsibility to pay for the damage they cause.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoI’m not pretending those are the only options - I’m saying that in a nominally anti-capitalist country, they wrought massive ecological destruction.