Quote:Capitalism itself needs or prefers constant population growth.
"Capitalism can’t function without a growing population. Population growth cannot be examined apart from the economic system in which it is embedded. Negative or zero population growth can pose serious problems for a capitalist society always in search of new markets for its goods and requiring a continual expansion of the labor force and of the relative surplus population of the unemployed in order to meet the needs of production and profits." - Magdoff and Foster
{ can someone date that quote..and explain it a bit..like who those names represent, who deh work for, how are they considered in the intellectual world }
allyuh are stunning on this board. there is no sense of evolutionary time and what it means. it is as if the world was born and exists in stasis although the basic conditions of our lives put the lie to that.
I remember historically...reading american history.. how they were estatic when they arrived at 150 million..200 million and so on. there used to be eugenics talk all along but relative to the Indians and Negros. they were estatic for all white increase. they opened up to europe, emptied the prisons etc and sent them off to america. that famous island in San Francisco bay was a clearing house for immigrants
but now eugenics affects everyone. all are subject to GMO, to fluoride in the water, pollution, fracting, vaccination programs, bad medicines like Vioxx that kills by the tens of thousands at a time..programs like letting loose the AIDS virus, Sars, west Nile etc..., fast foods, food additives, bad cooking oils, sugar and salt over use in food and drink. heart attack is a global scandal, so to is cancer for which all the cures that have been found have been hidden away, while killing cancer treatmens is general practice..and it goes on and on
Michael Moore made a killer doc on the american health industry that exposes hundreds of K deaths every year..growing phenomena in american health. others have made similar docs. chameleon ketchim used to call what goes on there PHARMAGEDDON! now he is busy calling for more of it. somebody must have slipped him a lil cash. or he figures that any development of social mass murder would eliminate nig nogs and not Paks who can slip into nig nog space
well why all that Trinnybaddy..and no more celebrations for increases ..only global propaganda about over populaton and the need for reduction::confused::
if you would take simple note that from choo choos traversing the english countryside to those across america there are vehicles in orbit made by humans. that means on earth things like factories that used to employ 50 thousand people for a certain level of production of cars, steel etc...can now be built with modern techniques and robotization that would just about eliminate the need for human labour at all...with relevant rates of production that can only be calculated by exponent..like a 1970's base to the power of 6 at GM's main plant in Detroit Michigan...with full robotization
that is the problem of this day as it has been the problem at all previous revolutionary points in human history. Technology advances and destabilizes an established way that had itself stabilized from some previous revolutionary point. that is how society changes. technological advance is the single most significant destabilizing factor in that process.
right in the belly of any established way or social system, it gives rise to the way of life that will replace it..like the feudal monarchical form of social organisation was destabilized by the rise of the manufactures in feudalism, who deposed the feudal monarchy with the help of the people in the famous european revolutions of the 16, 17, 18 centuries
